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Adam Gussow, shattered by failed love at twenty-seven, dedicated himself to blues music in an act of creative desperation. When he met Nat Riddles ("harmonica-man for all occasions"), he got what he was longing for: initiation into the New York "harp"-playing demimonde and a headlong plunge into a Dionysian lifestyle that ended when Riddles' near-murder and flight compelled Adam to find a different mentor. Mister Satan was that man.
Born Sterling Magee in Mississippi, Satan played guitar and various percussion instruments simultaneously, ferociously. He was also a soapbox preacher and environmental philosopher, an African-American genius of Shakespearean immensity. Defying cultural and generational divides, Adam and Mister Satan become fellow street musicians, would-be racial redeemers, and, eventually, an acclaimed performing duo.
This is their remarkable story: at once the author's own coming of age and his account of the vicissitudes and tenacity of a friendship realized through a shared love of the blues.
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Mister Satan's apprentice: a blues memoir
2009, University of Minnesota Press
in English
- 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
0816667756 9780816667758
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Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir
March 14, 2000, Vintage
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in English
0679771778 9780679771777
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Mister Satan's apprentice: a blues memoir
1998, Pantheon Books
in English
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067945022X 9780679450221
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Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1998.
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