♫ Episode #20 – You Think You Know about the Blues? Eliah Wald on the History of the Blues

We welcome musician, historian, and author Elijah Wald to discuss the history of the blues.

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Show notes:

• Elijah Wald’s website
• Elijah Wald’s Songobiography
• Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
• Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• The Mayor of McDougal Street
• Inside Dave van Ronk (the album with the cat on the cover)
• Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
• Kirk’s review of Dylan Goes Electric
• Robert Palmer: Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta

Howlin’ Wolf on Shindig, May 20, 1965:

Our next tracks:

• Kirk: Hot Tuna
• Doug: Howlin’ Wolf: The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions

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Special Guest: Elijah Wald.

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