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The story of an unlikely musical partnership, the blues, and race in America, with a new preface by the author Mister Satan's Apprentice is the history of one of music's most fascinating collaborations, between Adam Gussow, a young graduate school dropout and harmonica player, and Sterling ""Mr. Satan"" Magee, a guitarist and underground blues legend who had originally made his name as ""Five Fingers Magee.""

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Enough roadblocks, heartbreaks, catastrophes, and redemptions to fill a modern-day Pilgrim's Progress . . . A fascinating and revealing portrait of one of the most unusual partnerships in the long history of the blues. -- Living Blues Magazine

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Adam Gussow is the author of Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition and Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York. Associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi, he continues to tour with Sterling ""Mr. Satan"" Magee.

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