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The Voice of the Delta by Robert Sacré5/29/2023 It originally had a very limited print run but created considerable interest. Robert Sacré, a specialist in African American music, assembled a group of blues scholars in 1984 to consider Charlie Patton’s life and music, and this book contains the output from that conference. Robert Palmer in his Deep Blues, said that Patton was a musician who “still informs, entertains and moves listeners all over the world.” Patton’s recordings powerfully influenced subsequent generations of musicians and today, even nearly 90 years after his death, his music remains important. Charlie Patton: Voice of the Mississippi Delta, Robert Sacré (ed.), University Press of Mississippi.Īlong with Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton was arguably the most important and formative voice of the early sound of the blues in the Mississippi Delta.
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