Titlebook: Black Bodies and the Black Church; A Blues Slant Kelly Brown Douglas Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012 b

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“Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya”er Richard Morgan had just left Memphis, Tennessee, where Bessie had performed that Saturday night. They were headed to Darling, Mississippi, where she was to perform that Sunday afternoon. Bessie sat in the front passenger seat while Richard was driving. They rode in silence, apparently both still

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Down at the Crossroadsa mysterious black man appeared. Robert handed him his guitar. The black man took it and tuned it. He offered the guitar back to Robert. Robert took it. With that exchange a pact was made. Robert received the gift of playing the guitar, the devil gained Robert’s soul. This was a story that many beli

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A Crossroads Godhurches were to them, they just could not part from blues. No one demonstrated this more than Sippie Wallace. She knew since she was a little girl that blues was considered the devil’s music. She knew that as a blues singer she would be scorned, if not rejected, by her church. Her church meant a lot

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Blues Coda: Back to the Crossroadsoute from Memphis to Mississippi. I don’t know what I expected to find in going back. It was just a sign with a guitar and a plaque beneath that talked about Clarksdale. There was nothing about Robert Johnson and pacts with the devil. There was no sign that I saw on the way down pointing you to the