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As we sat there, chatting and sipping our Cokes, a man walked past the door, and Barnes jumped up and ran after him, yelling, Get your goddamn ass inside here! Escaping the Delta Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Elijah Wald Dedication To the memory of Dave Van Ronk, so often my mentor in both music and writing, whose ideas formed the foundation of this work. McCormick believed that Johnson himself accepted the phrase as a description of his resolve to abandon the settled life of a husband and farmer to become a full-time blues musician.
Even within the musics normally considered blues there is plenty of room for disagreement. Since all blues history was written retrospectively, this paradox has rarely been stressed. It was a deeply moving experience to drive through those expanses of empty fields, hearing the lonesome blues whining through my tinny car speakers. There are two reasons: The first is that he is the only prewar blues artist whose records are still widely owned and heard today, and therefore he is the natural starting point for modern listeners who want to delve more deeply.
ISBN 13: 9780060524272 - He currently lives in Medford, Massachusetts.
