J.B. Aspinall
ASIN: B0082208XW
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 164
This is fiction based on historical fact: the Paramount recording session in May 1930 by four Mississippi blues musicians: Charley Patton, Louise Johnson, Son House and Willie Brown. The book relates the experiences and interactions of the quartet, four very different personalities, during their journey from the Mississippi Delta and their stay in Grafton, Wisconsin. A number of issues are raised: racial, sexual, political, religious... It is also about the triumph of art over circumstance: the amazing music they produced in contrast to their stinted and shambolic lives.