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Subject·Blues (music)✕clear
Nonfiction · Music history

Deep Blues

Robert Palmer
1981 · 310 pages

Palmer traces the blues from Mississippi Delta plantations through Memphis to Chicago's South Side, and he hears exactly what Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, and Muddy Waters were doing on the strings.

★ 6.1