![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Lee - Shade Tree Music Oxford, MS.Paul Garon - Author, researcher, (Oliver asked him to do: The Devil's Son-in-Law: The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and His Songs.Bill Ferris - Professor, Center for the study of Southern Culture University Of Mississippi ().David Evans - Professor Of Music, The University Of Memphis.Dixon - co-author, Blues & Gospel Records Scott Dirks - Producer, author, harmonica player Scottyboy's Blues Page Chicago, IL.Alan Balfour - Contributor, Blues & Rhythm magazine, Southampton, UK. ![]() Its list reads like a Who's Who of the Blues: They have provided a webpage homage - compiled by Eric LeBlanc - honoring this great blues mentor. He was the inspiration for scores of Blues experts. His book, Blues Fell This Morning became for many the must companion piece for musical anthologies put on wax like his own complitation by the same name, and subtitled - Rare Recordings of Southern Blues Singers. His work is all the more mind-blowing when one discovers he was really an architect professionally. He wrote the definitive books on blues that fueled the tremendous interest in Europe during the 1960's, continued research and writing, and became the reference for those scholars in the very States the bluesmen played. This under-heralded, but highly praised amongst his peers, blues historian, producer and writer was born Paul Hereford Oliver in Nottingham, England on the 25th of May in 1927. ![]()
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