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Book Review

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

by C. Michael Bailey
February 9, 2005

Elijah Wald Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Amistad Press ISBN: 0-06-052427-8 2004 per · spec · tive ( noun ) (From Dictionary.com with elaborations by the author) (a) The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole: a perspective of Robert Johnson's cultural importance; a need to view the whole of blues scholarship in the proper perspective. ...

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The Telarc Blues Project

by C. Michael Bailey
November 5, 2003

Telarc International has slowly and quietly been populating its jazz and blues rosters with some of the foremost talent performing and recording today. The jazz roles boast the late Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Monty Alexander, Geoff Keezer, Benny Green, Russell Malone, Tierney Sutton, and McCoy Tyner. Th blues stables are just as impressive with Bob Margolin, Jimmy Thackery, Tab Benoit, Joe Louis Walker, Tommy Castro, and Jimmy Hall. While the jazz output remains straightforward and mainstream (accepting Ray Brown's successful ...