Jook Right On
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âPearson has collected a gold mine of compelling tales, organized them with convincing logic, and introduced them with the kind of penetrating insight and professional modesty that any blues scholar might do well to emulate. This is a terrific bookâone I know Iâll use in my own teaching.â âAdam Gussow,âŚ
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A precise, thoughtful, and unromantic blues scholar, Barry Lee Pearson was also a friend of, and occasional booking agent for, DC-area acoustic blues legends like John Jackson and Cephas & Wiggins.
Jook Right On, which I was delighted to blurb and use in my own teaching, offers a series of compact autobiographical testimoniesââblues storiesââon a wide range of topics from a wide range of blues people.
âWordsmiths by trade,â Pearson writes in his brilliantly incisive introduction, âthese storytellers bring to their tales qualities also found in blues musical performance and philosophical perspectives characteristic of the blues tradition such asâŚ
From Adam's list on the Blues set in Mississippi, Chicago, Florida.
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