Reddit reviews Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
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Robert Palmer used to be one of the more important rock writers for Rolling Stone magazine and the New York Times. His magnum opus is the acclaimed Deep Blues.
From my perspective, 50s rock performances were truly unpredictable and transgressive. The activities that went down at those venues (drug use, bi-racial sex orgies, etc.) were very much illegal in many places and caused the whole nation to be freaked out. In contrast, the Rolling Stones and many other bands recognized the wildness of the 50s, and made a deliberate attempt to mimic it. Spontaneous wildness is something more wild than planned mimicry of wildness.