Pioneers of the Blues Revival 2/e

 

In the second edition of Pioneers of the Blues Revival, Steve Cushing adds new interviewees to the roster of prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advo­cacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Rare interview material with experts like Mack McCormick supplements dialogues with Paul Garon, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, and others in renewing lively debates and providing first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Throughout, the participants chronicle lifetimes spent loving, finding, col­lecting, reissuing, and producing records. They also recount relationships with essential blues musicians like Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White— connections that allowed the two races to learn how to talk to each other in a still-segregated world.