1 . Wald, Elijah. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. 221 . Print. 2. Wald, Elijah. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. 27. Print. 3. All dates of recordings were corroborated with listings at The Red Hot Jazz Archive (http://www.RedHotJazz.com) and/or American Music (http://www.wirz.de/music/american.htm)
Christopher McKittrick,
was born in Long Island, New York and currently lives in Queens. He has spoken about literature, film, music, and comic books at various conferences across the United States, and his nonfiction work has appeared in Newsday and Good Times Magazine. He also contributed an essay on director Terry Gilliam to Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film from McFarland Press and he is a regular contributor to MovieBuzzers.com and DailyActor.com. His first novel, Montauk, will be published in late 201 2 from Vagabondage Press. He is currently an instructor and administrator at St. John’s University in Queens, New York.
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