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Musician and actor King theorizes about the birth of the blues and recounts his illustrious career. In the first half of the book, the Black, Louisiana-born author contends that Creole people in 1890s New Orleans created blues music. Ignoring reports of other Southern blues musicians around 1900 and downplaying the cultural and class rift between French-speaking, educated Creole craftsmen and lower-class Black Americans in New Orleans, King identifies Jelly Roll Morton as the likely father of the blues and names cornetists Budd...Log In or Sign Up to Read More