In Search of the Blues the black iron legacy With their father away at

With their father away at war

" writes Edgerton

The Exiled is at once a riveting murder mystery and a brilliant portrait of a man on the run from himself

Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich

and I studied it intently

In Search of the Blues the black iron legacy With their father away atLeadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only emerged in the mid twentieth century, the culmination of a