Description
SLIDING DELTA is a quest to find legendary musician Mississippi John Hurt and learn to pick the Delta blues that takes a Chicago college boy south of Memphis in the summer of 1965.
“Delta blues taste like sweat and cheap whiskey; smell like jail; sound best in a concrete block club with no windows, set back along the river where there’s no law after dark.”
“In this powerful, superbly written coming-of-age story, accomplished author Ed Baldwin pays lyrical homage to both grassroots guitar picking and the richly layered characters and small towns of the Deep South”- Publisher’s Daily Review
“The author’s own love for one of the most quintessentially American musical styles bleeds through nearly every line of this novel, starting with the introduction: ‘The Delta blues taste like sweat and cheap whiskey; smell like jail; sound best in a concrete block club with no windows, set back along the river where there’s no law after dark.’ The narrative vividly illustrates every setting implied by that sentence – Kirkus Reviews
“A joyous celebration of all that is wonderful about the history of Mississippi Delta music. You can hear the sensual sliding guitar as you read this story. Very highly recommended.”- LibraryThing
” . . . the writing is fine and I’m sure other readers will enjoy the journey.”- QuietFuryBooks
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