Journeyman's road

by Adam Gussow

"Journeyman's Road offers a bold new vision of where the blues have been in the course of the twentieth century and what they have become at the dawn of the new millennium: a world music rippling with postmodern contradictions. Author Adam Gussow places blues literature in dialogue with the music that provokes it, articulating an American tradition." "At the heart of Gussow's story is his own streetside partnership with Harlem bluesman Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee, a musical collaboration marked not just by a series of polarities - black and white, Mississippi and Princeton, hard-won mastery and youthful apprenticeship - but by creative energies that pushed beyond apparent differences to forge new dialogues and new sounds." "Undercutting familiar myths about the downhome sources of blues authenticity, Gussow celebrates New York's mongrel blues scene: the artists, the jam sessions, the venues, the street performers, and the eccentrics. Journeyman's Road offers a portrait of the New York s