From then on his music developed an increasingly urban rhythmic thrust, while his singing and harmonica playing remained both distinctive and downhome

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Deep Blues by Robert Palmer – Vacation book! As I was preparing to go, I really wanted to read a history of Chicago blues. I looked far and wide at used bookstores for a good example. Deep Blues is more of history of the Blues done by biographing some of its most notable names, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Johnson, and Son House. It was good, but their wasn’t as much about Chicago as I would have liked.