The Country Blues

From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music—recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson—had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neg...