Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated
public radio staple "Blues before Sunrise," has spent over thirty
years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In"
Pioneers of the Blues Revival," he interviews many of the prominent
white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the
blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s.
Opinionated and territorial, the American, British, and French
interviewees provide fascinating first-hand accounts of the era and
movement. Experts including Paul Oliver, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Sam
Charters, Ray Flerledge, Paul Oliver, Richard K. Spottswood, and
Pete Whelan chronicle in their own words their obsessive early
efforts at cataloging blues recordings and retrace lifetimes spent
loving, finding, collecting, reissuing, and producing records. They
and nearly a dozen others recount relationships with blues
musicians, including the discoveries of prewar bluesmen Mississippi
John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White, and the
reintroduction of these musicians and many others to new
generations of listeners. The accounts describe fieldwork in the
South, renew lively debates, and tell of rehearsals in Muddy
Waters's basement and randomly finding Lightning Hopkins's guitar
in a pawn shop.
Blues scholar Barry Lee Pearson provides a critical and historical
framework for the interviews in an introduction.
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