Conversation with the Blues
- ISBN-10
- 0818012234
- ISBN-13
- 9780818012235
- Category
- Music / Genres & Styles / Blues
- Pages
- 217
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1965
- Publisher
- Horizon Press
- Author
- Paul Oliver
Description
"...transcribed from field tape-recordings..."--p. [xvii].
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