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In honor of Black History Month, I decided to honor part of my heritage. When the chance to review Deep Inside The Blues came upon me I was, yes this is it! Growing up I was familiar with the Blues. There was no music unturned in my family. I remember Blues Legend B.B. King vividly as he made a guest appearance either on the Muppet Show or Sesame Street when I was a kid. I then had a chance to work with one of his daughters Shirley King so my knowledge of the blues culture grew. I learned it was more than a culture, it is history. So If you think you know the Blues, well, you might not know the blues like you thought.
Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues musicians, their families and homes, neighborhoods, festivals, and gigs. Her photographic work combines iconic late-career images of many legendary figures including Bo Diddley, Honeyboy Edwards, B. B. King, Pinetop Perkins, and Hubert Sumlin with youthful shots of Cedric Burnside, Shemekia Copeland, and Sharde Thomas, themselves now in their thirties and forties. During this time, the Burnside and Turner families and other Mississippi artists such as T-Model Ford, James “Super Chikan” Johnson, and L. C. Ulmer entered the national and international spotlight, ensuring the powerful connection between authentic Delta, Hill Country, and Piney Woods blues musicians and their audience.
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Freelance Writer Janny(Jan Marie)C 