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The Blues — The Great Trial
📖 242 pagesThe legends of the blues in the dock, in the style of the Advocatus Diaboli
«Not for love of the devil, but for love of the truth.» The method of the advocatus diaboli applied to the most mythologised music of modern times. Pacts with the devil at the crossroads, geniuses poisoned at twenty-seven, splendid legends: summoned, cross-examined, set against the documents. What is left standing is a truth more powerful than any fairy tale.
- The original crime: slavery, cotton and the birth of the blues
- The Delta and the crossroads: Robert Johnson and the myth of the crossroads
- The electric current: Chess Records and the queens of the blues
- From blues to rock: the three Kings, Sam Phillips and legalised plagiarism
- The revival and the British invasion (Led Zeppelin in the dock)
- Anatomy of the blues: twelve bars, blue notes, shuffle
- The blues today, around the world — and in Italy
- The trial of the legends: the 27 Club, the crossroads, the theft of the century
The blues was not born from a pact with the devil. It was born from something far worse and far truer: from slavery, from cotton, from the pain and the survival of a people.
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