Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir

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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 Satan" Magee, a guitarist and underground blues legend who had originally made his name as "Five Fingers Magee."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 Pilgrims Progress . . . A fascinating and revealing portrait of one of the most unusual partnerships in the long history of the blues." Living Blues Magazine

Author Bio

Adam Gussow is the author of Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition and Journeymans Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkners 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.