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The Blues Route
Author(s): Hugh Merrill (Author)
- Publisher: William Morrow & Co
- Publication Date: January 1, 1990
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 0688066119
- ISBN-13: 9780688066116
Book Description
A columnist describes his cross-country odyssey in search of America’s indigenous blues music, in a chronicle of the history of blues music, its legendary musicians, and its promoters, disc jockeys, and record producers
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
In 1986 Merrill retraced the blues’ path from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago and the West. His journey is a kind of graveyard tour, populated by the caretakers of the blues’ greatest musical legacies. Those who still play lament the flight of black music to pop radio, not seeming to understand that the rural society from which the blues grew has moved on. Merrill lets them speak in their own voices via largely unadorned narratives. Each singer tells a similar story, but dedication to their unique and important music seeps through. Merrill’s own contribution is slim, and his narrative has little shape. Still, his book is more useful as an oral history documenting fathers long ago displaced by their wilder, noisier, and wealthier sons and daughters.
– Timothy L. Zindel, Hastings Coll. of the Law, San Francisco
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
– Timothy L. Zindel, Hastings Coll. of the Law, San Francisco
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.