Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the death, at age 76, of the remarkable H.C. Speir, a man whose ear for black music in Mississippi helped to shape the history of the blues.
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You can see where his dress sense influenced Dylan, can't you? Well ironed too. Is it a Rockwell?
WELCOME TO BLOGGING ABOUT A BOOK ABOUT BLIND WILLIE McTELL..AND BLOGGING ABOUT PRE-WAR BLUES IN GENERAL..
HAND ME MY TRAVELIN' SHOES: In Search of Blind Willie McTell, by Michael Gray
North American hardback published September 2009 by Chicago Review Press. 448 pages. US$26.95. ISBN: 9781556529757.
London: Bloomsbury, July 2nd, 2007. Hardback 1st edition. ISBN: 0 7475 6560 0; ISBN-13: 978-0747565604. £25. The first UK paperback edition was published on October 6, 2008. £9.99. ISBN: 9780747565611.
2 comments:
You can see where his dress sense influenced Dylan, can't you? Well ironed too. Is it a Rockwell?
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