Book: Pioneers of the Blues Revival

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University of Illinois Press, 2014 (Music in American Life Series) / By Steve Cushing / Introduction by Barry Lee Pearson / Eyewitness accounts of the blues’ evolution into a global music phenomenon. /

Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In Pioneers of the Blues Revival, he interviews many of the prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues’ crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. / Interviewees: Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, Pete Whelan, Dick Waterman, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Robert M. W. Dixon, Bob Koester, John Broven, Mike Rowe, Ray Flerlage, Jim O’Neal, Richard Spottswood, Jacques Demetre, Phil Spiro, Chris Barber, David Evans, and our very own Chris Strachwitz. / 367 pages, full index