Author Archives: peterblowry

Blues music is still having something of another boom period, although today the main audience is White, as are most of the newer practitioners. The days of blues being solely a Black music made for a Black audience are slipping … Continue reading →

Robert Johnson… Robert Johnson… I’m almost as sick of hearing the name Robert Johnson as is Robert Lockwood! There’s more to blues music and blues performance than he… even more to so-called “Delta” blues. This over-emphasizing and mythologizing of Johnson … Continue reading →

After Bastin’s year at Chapel Hill, I continued on with the South East research for close to a full decade. Of course, the New York area (O&S # 13) connected into this work (as did all Eastern Seaboard cities, from … Continue reading →

MIXED BAG: # 1 1.)   I have to own up to it… one day I was not well and so I was stretched out on the couch watching England being beaten up by Australia in one-day cricket. I was desperate. … Continue reading →

It was in the fall of 1972 when I drove to the Jackson family compound accompanied by Kip Lornell… autumn in Jonesville, SC and the med show season over until the following Spring. There were a number of outbuildings on … Continue reading →

Reading Peter Cooper’s book on Spartanburg, SC (O&S # 10) got me to thinking about my experiences thereabouts and made me realize how much began to open up and “happen” after meeting Baby Tate so successfully. Once he realized that … Continue reading →