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Pages: 242
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

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When author Rich Newman first arrives at the battered doublewide trailer deep in the Mississippi Delta, it's clear that this is no ordinary haunting. Called fro
Beyond the Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Adam Gussow
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-05 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence
Up Jumped the Devil
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Bruce Conforth
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-04 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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The Penderyn 2020 Music Book Prize (UK edition) Living Blues Critics Choice Best Blues Book of 2019 Living Blues Readers Choice Best Blues Book of 2019 Certific
Escaping the Delta
Language: en
Pages: 510
Authors: Elijah Wald
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-24 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential musi
Chasin' that Devil Music
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Gayle Wardlow
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Backbeat Books

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Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s