Though Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers lived under dissimilar laws, playing different styles of music, Ben Wynne explains in his new book these touchstone Mississippi pickers shared similar ...

In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers ... The author sums up the sociological part of his book, thusly: "Patton And Rodgers did not live completely paralleled lives as human beings, but their ...

That’s what I was trying to show. How did you choose these two musicians, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rogers, whose careers are paralleled in this book, to write about? Quite frankly, they were in ...

If you've ever enjoyed the ghostly weird-old-America wail of Robert Johnson, the deep blues of Charley Patton or Skip James ... got drawn into it — in a new book, Do Not Sell at Any Price.

The set also includes a gorgeously ornamented book filled with essays on Patton ... Revenant throws in a facsimile of Fahey's 1970 paperback Charley Patton, which was adapted from his doctoral ...