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A raw, heartfelt memoir of an unlikely collaboration between an earnest young harmonica player and a charismatic, streetwise Harlem musician.
Adam Gussow, shattered by failed love at twenty-seven, dedicated himself to blues music in an act of creative desperation. When he met Nat Riddles ("harmonica-man for all occasions"), he got what he was longing for: initiation into the New York "harp"-playing demimonde and a headlong plunge into a Dionysian lifestyle that...
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Adam Gussow grew up in suburban New York and graduated in 1979 from Princeton, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate--a fairly typical background for a white blues fan. But Gussow took his obsession with the blues further than most when he started blowing harmonica on the New York City streets in the mid-'80s along with two gifted African American musicians. Nat Riddles, a near-contemporary and fellow harp player,...
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"A fascinating and, indeed, almost unique contemporary American memoir. The story Adam Gussow tells---wonderfully complicated by questions of race and class, innocence and experience, sorrow and joy---is simply unforgettable."---Arnold Rampersad, author of Jackie Robinson
"Mister Satan's Apprentice tells of playing the harp through some rough, sad days; but it does so with upbeat enthusiasm. Between evocations of good jams and bad gigs, Gussow tells how a half-Jewish Princeton...
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 067945022X
- ISBN 13 9780679450221
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages402
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