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King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton

King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton

Komara, Edward
Wardlow, Gayle Dean
Calt, Stephen

Paperback

Series: Charles K. Wolfe Music

MusiciansBlues & SoulRegional: South

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1621906612
ISBN13: 9781621906612
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Oct 18 2022
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891-1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like Pony Blues, A Spoonful Blues, and High Water Everywhere in the blues lexicon and, through his imitators, in American music. But over the decades, his contributions to blues music have been overshadowed in popularity by those of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and other mid-century bluesmen and women who've experienced a resurgence in their music. King of the Delta Blues Singers, originally published in 1988, began a small renaissance in blues and Patton research and set a new scholarly precedent touching even the spelling his name--which, to Patton himself, was Charlie, not the Charley of the early records. And now, with the wide availability of Patton's complete discography in multiple formats, this revised second edition brings the legend of Charlie Patton into a clarity of detail that was previously impossible.

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