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name: Adam Gussow
about: A professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, Gussow is also a blues harmonica player and teacher. He has published a number of books on the blues, including Mister Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (1998), Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (2002), and Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition (2017), which the readers of Living Blues selected as "Best Blues Book of 2017." His latest book is Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (2020). His music longtime musical partnership with Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee is the subject of an award-winning documentary, Satan &amp; Adam (2018), which screened on Netflix for two years. These days Gussow performs A professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, Gussow is also a blues harmonica player and teacher. He has published a number of books on the blues, including Mister Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (1998), Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (2002), and Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition (2017), which the readers of Living Blues selected as "Best Blues Book of 2017." His latest book is Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (2020). His music longtime musical partnership with Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee is the subject of an award-winning documentary, Satan &amp; Adam (2018), which screened on Netflix for two years. These days Gussow performs with his blues trio, Sir Rod &amp; The Blues Doctors, which features Magee’s nephew, singer Rod Patterson. ...more