King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton
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King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton
Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891-1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like "Pony Blues," "A Spoonful Blues," and "High Water Everywhere" in the blues lexicon and, through his imitators, in American music. But over the decades, hi...
EDWARD KOMARA has directed the Julia Crane Memorial Library at SUNY Potsdam since 2001. He is the author of 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own and The Road to Robert Johnson.
GAYLE DEAN WARDLOW is a historian of American blues. He is the author of Chasin' That Devil Music and coauthor of Up Jumped the Devil.
STEPHEN CALT (1946-2010) was a researcher and writer on the American blues.
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