Download or read book The Country Blues written by Samuel Charters and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975-08-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.