Elijah Wald: Escaping The Delta; Tim Brooks: Lost Sounds; Ned Sublette: Cuba And Its Music
Eric Weisbard, The New York Times Book Review, 31 October 2004
THE IMAGE OF the bluesman Robert Johnson standing at a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, selling his soul to play guitar as though he had invented the instrument, has long epitomized the romance of American music.
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