Deep Blues.

New York:: Viking Press,, 1981.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a crease to the front flap This history of Blues music provides a concise and authoritative account of the music's African beginnings up through its transformation from a backcountry goodtime music into today's modern blues and rock 'n roll. Palmer was an early contributing music correspondent for Rolling Stone Magazine as well as other publications. Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginnings, to the steamy bars of Chicago's South Side, to international popularity, recognition, and imitation. Palmer tells the story of the blues through the lives of its greatest practitioners: Robert Johnson, who sang of being pursued by the hounds of hell; Muddy Waters, who electrified Delta blues and gave the music its rock beat; Robert Lockwood and Sonny Boy Williamson, who launched the King Biscuit Time radio show and brought blues to the airwaves; and John Lee Hooker, Ike Turner, B. B. King, and many others.