When Buddy Guy Got the Blues

This is a book by a blues music icon, ghosted by a writer with an acute sense of language such that it reads almost like an artful transcript. Nowhere does it seem ghost written, because coauthor David Ritz has obviously studied Buddy Guy’s speech, bringing to When I Left Home a linguistic verisimilitude that captures perfectly mid-century Black southern regional dialect.

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