Deep Blues - Robert Palmer
Though a bit shy of 300 pages, this history satisfactorily covers in an accessible style the American music genre from the Delta country, i.e. the northwest section of Mississippi and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana. It is filled with biographies of musician and critical overviews of how their music influenced each other’s work and white artists such as Elvis Presley. The copiousness of the information is, in fact, overwhelming, like a lot of serious books about genres like jazz and rock. The book contains many suggestions for further reading and a list of essential recordings by the figures such as Robert Lockwood Jr., Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.
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