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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta (1981)

de Robert Palmer

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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… (mais)

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Interesting account of where the blues came from and how they affected rock and roll, etc. Makes me want to listen more to Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and others. (

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kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |

Palmer's book serves as a great introduction to the Blues Greats from Charlie Patton to Otis Rush, with a big focus on Muddy Waters, whom Palmer must have talked to for days on end. It is an interesting history of how some of the poorest people in the United States created one of its enduring musical treasures--but as Ted Gioia points out in his "Subversive History of Music", new musical innovations always rise up from the minority. Palmer's writing is not always the most fluid, especially when reeling off so many dates and places, but when he starts to write about the music itself and its effect on him, every word rings true. (

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datrappert | Sep 29, 2021 |

No idea how to rate this one; it was a good history, as histories go, but then there's the enjoyment factor, too. I blogged a bit about it: https://wp.me/p4LPys-kM.

KatrinkaV | Nov 10, 2018 |

Hollar Back: I think I may go out the back door under the moon and catch a train to a crossroads to see what sound resounds and who I might meet in the deep blue of midnight. (

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NAKnott | Jan 1, 2016 |

Renowned director Robert Mugge and music scholar Robert Palmer went deep in the Mississippi Delta to seek out the best blues acts in the country. From the juke joints of northern Mississippi, to the blues clubs of Greenville and Clarksdale, to the porche. (

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ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing (1982)

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