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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