BPP Show: Blues Legend Janiva Magness, "Weeds Like Us" Author is Tory's Guest!

The storied career of Janiva Magness is ongoing. The award-winning singer has a string of blues and like-influenced recordings behind her. Now, Magness tells her life story in "Weeds Like Us."

Not for the faint of heart, Magness pulls no punches about growing up in an abusive, dysfunctional family, marked by physical and sexual abuse, suicide and drug use. Magness spares no words of criticism, especially on herself as she tells of a wild, dissolute life, but one which turns to the thing that becomes her saving grace: music.

Names, many names are familiar here--Magness sang, played and toured with legends in both the blues and rock worlds. Her own journey as a recording artist is detailed here, and Magness turns aside critics and her own personal demons in an empowering story.