Jazz Articles about Charley Patton

In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music by Ben Wynne

by C. Michael Bailey
August 19, 2017

In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music Ben Wynne 296 Pages ISBN: # 978-0807157800 Louisiana State Press 2014 With surgical precision, Ben Wynne teases away all the romantic claptrap surrounding two titan music contemporaries, placing them in their appropriate historical perspectives, perspectives that make for a unique Venn diagram of social and cultural overlaps that highlight the elements common to both the blues and country music. He does ...