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Deep Blues by Robert Palmer

Deep Blues

A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta

By Robert Palmer

By Robert Palmer

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Category: Music

Paperback $18.00

Jul 29, 1982 | ISBN 9780140062236

Deep Blues by Robert Palmer
Paperback $18.00
Jul 29, 1982 | ISBN 9780140062236

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About Deep Blues

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

About Robert Palmer

Robert Palmer was the New York Times’s first full-time rock writer and chief pop critic (1976–1988) and has been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone since the early seventies. He has taught courses in American music at Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, Bowdoin, the University of Mississippi,… More about Robert Palmer

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Category: Music

Paperback | $18.00
Published by Penguin Books
Jul 29, 1982 | 320 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140062236

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Table Of Contents

Prologue: “It Wasn’t No Big Money, but We’s Doin’ It”

Part I
Chapter 1: Beginnings
Chapter 2: Heart Like Railroad Steel

Part II
Chapter 3: Mojo Hand
Chapter 4: Chicago Pep

Part III
Chapter 5: King Biscuit Time
Chapter 6: I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
Chapter 7: Kings of Rhythm

Epilogue: The World Boogie

Discography
Bibliography
Index

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