![]() ![]() It’s like the emperor is buck naked…once I point to it, then people can see it.” “Why on a Friday or Saturday night at my dad’s juke joint…why would the band be singing sad, depressed songs? Why? It doesn’t even make any sense. “We are not even down in the dumps and sad and depressed at a funeral. In the 2021 book The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture, an unconventional historian boldly reclaims ownership of his own culture. This genre genesis is the latest chapter in Southern history to receive a thoroughly-researched audit and closer inspection of where historical fact blurs into myth. ![]() ![]() Blues musician and author Chris Thomas King.įrom deep within the Mississippi Delta, the legend of the founding of the blues is one held by the labor-worn hands of descendants of the enslaved, eclipsed by the story of how Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. ![]()
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