Chasin’ That Devil’s Music, Searching for the Blues

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(Book). Chasin’ That Devil Music In search of the Blues presents the result of extensive research by a blues scholar who has researched the artists on old 78 RPM records to uncover their stories. Includes rare interviews and the actual songs which to be had online the usage of the unique code printed inside each and every book.
Chasin’ That Devil Music has the feel of a documentary about the making of a thrilling motion picture. The main focal point is on the Delta blues singers of the early 20th century–artists such as Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson who’ve achieved near-mythic status in blues circles. In addition, most of the articles gathered in this splendidly illustrated volume capture the process and people involved in tracking long-lost recordings nearly as elusive as the performers who made them. Here, as an example, is the story of creator/blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow’s three-year hunt for the death certificate of Robert Johnson, the celebrated Mississippi bluesman and a figure whose legend has grown greater with each and every year since his much-debated death in 1938. The text here is nearly as raw in spots as the music that sparked it, but, as with those sounds (which can also be heard on a terrific CD sampler included with the book), enthusiasts will find Chasin’ That Devil Music riveting. –Steven Stolder

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