Escaping the delta: Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues

What is blues?

Race records : Blues queens, crooners, street singers, and hokum

What the records missed

Hollers, moans, and "deep blues"

The Mississippi Delta : Life and listening

A life remembered

The music

First sessions, part one : Going for some hits

First sessions, part two : Reaching back

Second sessions : the professional

The legacy

Jump shouters, smooth trios, and down-home soul

The blues cult : primitive folk art and the roots of rock

Farther on up the road : wherefore and whither the blues

Afterthought. So what about the devil?