Robert Johnson Revised: What Have We Learned From Elijah Wald's Escaping The Delta?

Today special guest scholar and musician Yuri Campbell returns, to review the key lessons we learned from Nate’s discussion with Elijah Wald about his book "Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson & the Invention of the Blues.”

Nate and Yuri evaluate Wald’s boldly revisionist take on Robert Johnson and debate whether or not Wald succeeded in re-assessing Johnson from the perspective of his peers and contemporaries in contrast with the romantic myth of Johnson long propagated in the folk & rock communities.

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• Elijah Wald on Robert Johnson & Escaping the Delta
  
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