Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery
On August 15, 1938, the most celebrated figure in blues history, Robert Johnson, was murdered outside a Greenwood, Mississippi, juke joint. More than 50 years after, a college professor, following rumors of nine unknown Johnson recordings, disappears in the Mississippi Delta. Blues historian Nick...
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On August 15, 1938, the most celebrated figure in blues history, Robert Johnson, was murdered outside a Greenwood, Mississippi, juke joint. More than 50 years after, a college professor, following rumors of nine unknown Johnson recordings, disappears in the Mississippi Delta. Blues historian Nick Travers leaves New Orleans to track down the missing professor--and to unravel the greatest mystery in all of blues lore.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312192549 (0312192541)
ASIN: 0312192541
Publish date: 1998-10
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 226
Edition language: English