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Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes - In Search of Blind Willie McTell

by Michael Gray

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a through portrait emerges of the South(1) and he'd feel it was time wasted otherwise. That said(1) and the extent to which it was - and to a lesser extent is - suffused by racism. McTell's life is related about as fully as seems possible from this distance(1) biography(1) blues(1) especially given that black people had so little of their lives documented by the state. Gray is also an entertainingly curmudgeonly guide as he trawls around Georgia. Some appallingly inelegant sentences though(1) Interesting but overlong. Gray could have done with a firmer editor here. He's a prodigious researcher but there are passages here where you feel they are only included because they took so long to research(1) many of which require reading twice before they can be understood. I finished the book with a desire to read something by a prose stylist; too much of this book gave me a headache.(1) music(3)

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