We welcome musician, historian, and author Elijah Wald to discuss the history of the blues.

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Show notes:

Elijah Wald’s website
Elijah Wald’s Songobiography
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Mayor of McDougal Street
Inside Dave van Ronk (the album with the cat on the cover)
Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
Kirk’s review of Dylan Goes Electric
Robert Palmer: Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta

Howlin’ Wolf on Shindig, May 20, 1965:



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