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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

Deep Blues A Musical and Cultural History of the

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/07/1982
      ISBN13: 9780140062236, 978-0140062236
      ISBN10: 0140062238

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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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