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Delta blues : the life and times of the Mississippi Masters who revolutionized American music

Ted Gioia
The definitive account of how the rough sounds of the Mississippi Delta--from legendary greats Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and others--changed the course of American popular music
eBook, English, 2008
First edition View all formats and editions
W.W. Norton, New York, 2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780393069990, 0393069990
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The blues and the old kingdoms
Where the southern cross the dog
Dockery's plantation
Parchman prison
Hard time killin' floor
Hellhound on my trail
I'm a rolling stone
Hooker's boogie
Smokestack lightnin'
Riding with the King
The blues revival