Robert Johnson: Escaping the Delta

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03/12/2018 43 min Episodio 6
Robert Johnson: Escaping the Delta

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This week, Nate is joined by author Elijah Wald for a discussion of his book “Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues” In this episode, Elijah explains his ground-breaking revisionist history of the blues, why Robert Johnson was virtually ignored by blues fans of his own era and how he emerged as a legend in the 1960's and beyond.
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