This odyssey across America's musical heartland covers the history of blues through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born.
Folklorist Lomax offers a rollicking memoir of his journey back into blues country. A "singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" ("Kirkus Reviews"). of photos.
“Without Lomax it’s possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground.”
—Brian Eno
“No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own.”
—Nat Hentoff
“If not for Lomax, few people would have heard ‘Tom Dooley’ or ‘Goodnight Irene’ and Bob Zimmerman might be singing ‘Feelings’ at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota.”
—Newsweek
