Richard M. Brock
ASIN: B00VQRVZHS
Publisher: Bogie Road Publishing
Pages: 262
AMAZON #1 BEST SELLER in Blues Books!AMAZON BEST SELLER in Historical Thrillers and Historical Fiction!A fast and powerful historical thriller about the birth of the Delta blues.“...this is storytelling at its best...” -- Fortean Times Magazine“...poignant...heartening...insightful...” -- Kirkus ReviewsIn 1915, in a moonlit room in a boarding house in Texas, Charlie Patton -- the enigmatic inventor of blues music -- founds a shadowy alliance with Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter and Blind Lemon Jefferson. A pact is made, and the seeds of revolution are sown. Back at the Dockery Plantation in the Mississippi Delta, with the help of the likes of Son House, Howlin‘ Wolf, Robert Johnson, and others, Charlie’s plan spreads across the South, and then across the country. But these bluesmen have no way of knowing where this dangerous road will lead. Nor do they know the Ku Klux Klan is ...