Word: bluesman
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...distinction can be made between the blues metaphorical use of a social world and country music's more literal retelling. When Merle Haggard sings, "I turned twenty-one in prison, doing life without parole," we have to assume he is not happy. Delta bluesman Robert Johnson's delicate poetics leave little doubt...
Others, frankly, were impressed. Recently in Thayer 12, where Tom Rush (long-time Cambridge bluesman) crashed ten years ago, several women from various universities responded enthusiastically to that revelation...