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Hugh Merrill, the author of several books, is an award winning journalist. He lives in Decatur, Georgia..
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The Blues Route
From the Delta to California, a writer searches for America's purest music
by Hugh Merrill
Garrett County Press Digital Edition
236 pages
nonfiction
music history
blues
black and white photographs
$9.99
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Journalist Hugh Merrill takes us on a sweeping road trip in search of the distinctly American music known as the blues. Tracing blues culture from its beginning in rural Mississippi up through the Delta to Chicago and beyond, Merrill visits with legendary musicians such as Son Thomas, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Valerie Wellington and Magic Slim. In fascinating interviews, Merrill uncovers wonderful stories about Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey. The trip dips into New Orleans as Merrill explores how the blues exploded in clubs and cribs, influencing dixieland, jazz and zydeco. A trip out west presents a lovely tour of the cocktail lounges of Oakland and Los Angeles and the guardians of the blues who live there. The Blues Route is an engrossing narrative, a book that celebrates not only the music but the continuing search for sympathy, understanding and affinity that the blues embodies.
Garrett County Press is the distinguished, award-winning publisher of Common Folk Illustrated Journal, Best of Temp Slave, For Here or To Go, Kings of Cocaine, Guinea Pig Zero, Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothing, A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans Sniper, Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel, Buying the Night Flight, Kings of Cocaine, What the Hell Am I Doing Here?, and Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory.
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