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

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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:



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

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