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Ambling with the bluesman's toothache in his heel, he describes "cities of the plague, " plots surprise showdowns in which he slaughters sleeping opponents, ponders craven human nature ("They will tear your mind away from contemplation") and scans the skies for hints of geopolitical turmoil.
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King's, which is part-owned by the renowned black bluesman. (Poor blacks frequent the authentic but obscure underground clubs that dot sections of the city where most white tourists fear to tread.) What Beale Street lacks today is spontaneity.
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This was instigated by Clive, when out of the blue he gave me an album to listen to call King of the Delta Blues Singers, a collection of seventeen songs recorded by bluesman Robert Johnson in the 1930s.
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