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Just finished rereading "Room Full of Mirrors". A fantastic, well researched, biography on Jimi Hendrix. Written by Charles Cross...would recommend it to anyone that might take even a slight interest in the subject matter.
Currently, (again...) rereading "Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson + the Invention of the Blues". Another personal favorite. While covering much info. on Mr. Johnson, the book is not so much a biography as an attempt at tearing the mythology in early blues apart, and making the best possible sense of things (one of these "myths" in the minds of many uneducated blues fans is that Robert Johnson had some hand in inventing the blues...and all that rubbish about the blues being little more than early African American misery expressed through stringed instruments). Again, I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter.
"Scholars love to praise the 'pure' blues artists or the ones, like Robert Johnson, who died young + represent tragedy. It angers me how scholars associate the blues strictly with tragedy." - B.B. King
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