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Robert Mugge Notes from the Road – A Filmmaker’s Journey through American Music

Jim Hynes American music, Book, filmmaker March 10, 2023

Robert Mugge Notes from the Road – A Filmmaker’s Journey through American Music Sager Group LLC Readers of these pages have likely seen one, more likely several of the music filmmaker Robert Mugge’s documentary-like music films focused on American roots music and the many branches thereof. Mugge’s films are not documentaries in the narrative and […]

Book Reviews/ INDIE Blues Scene

Book review: “In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers and The Roots of American Music” by Ben Wynne

Rhetta Akamatsu American music, blues, Charley Patton, Country, Jimmie Rogers, roots music March 31, 2015

In In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers and The Roots of American Music, Ben Wynne has written an important book that supplies a great deal of information about two key figures in American popular music and the blues, country and rock ‘n roll music they fostered. The book is well-researched and for the most part […]