5/21/2023 0 Comments Careless Love by Peter Guralnick![]() ![]() This story also has a long history, going back at least to Al Jolson's "Jazz Singer," in which an Orthodox Jewish boy flees his father's cantorial lessons to sing ragtime and marry a shiksa. The second story, no less cautionary, is that of the religious performer who brings sacral elements to the pop marketplace, like Ray Charles, or scandalously crosses over to secular music, like Sam Cooke. ![]() ![]() Only in America did he become the Devil, and only here did his beneficiary pay so dearly for his moment of bling. The story is a twist on a West African tale in which the crossroads figure is a trickster named Eshu or Legba, who mediates between the gods and men. The first is that of the Delta bluesman, most notably Robert Johnson, who sells his soul to the Devil for otherworldly chops. $27.95.Īmerica has two Faust stories, and they run in opposite directions. ![]()
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