Robert Palmer: Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta

Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta


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Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginnings, to the steamy bars of Chicago’s South Side, to international popularity, recognition, and imitation. Palmer tells the story of the blues through the lives of its greatest practitioners: Robert Johnson, who sang of being pursued by the hounds of hell; Muddy Waters, who electrified Delta blues and gave the music its rock beat; Robert Lockwood and Sonny Boy Williamson, who launched the King Biscuit Time radio show and brought blues to the airwaves; and John Lee Hooker, Ike Turner, B. B. King, and many others. "A lucid . . . entrancing study" -- Greil Marcus "Palmer has a powerful understanding of the music and an intense involvement in the culture." -- The Nation


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Author: Robert Palmer
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Published Date: 25 Jul 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Country: none
Language: English
ISBN: 9780140062236
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