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Mister Satan’s Apprentice A Blues Memoir Adam Gussow Table of Contents EVENTS: 12/29/09 Philadelphia, PA OTHER: -Adam Gussow talks the blues, his roots, and his future plans on the University of Minnesota Press blog. -From the author: a video preview -- a must-see for blues harmonica fans.		$18.95 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6775-8
The story of an unlikely musical partnership, the blues, and race in America, with a new preface by the author Mister Satan’s Apprentice is the history of one of music’s most fascinating collaborations, between Adam Gussow, a young graduate school dropout and harmonica player, and Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, a guitarist and underground blues legend who had originally made his name as “Five Fingers Magee.” “Enough roadblocks, heartbreaks, catastrophes, and redemptions to fill a modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress . . . A fascinating and revealing portrait of one of the most unusual partnerships in the long history of the blues.” —Living Blues Magazine “Beneath the effusive and effervescent tone of Mister Satan’s Apprentice lie gnawing questions of race and identity, of cultural imperialism and human connection.” —Washington Post “The heart of the book is the luminous portrait of Mr. Satan . . . whose Technicolor medallions, doomsday proclamations, and furious guitar style mask a storied past, including stints with James Brown, Etta James, and the Supremes.” —Publishers Weekly Adam Gussow is the author of Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition and Journeyman’s Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner’s Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York. Associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi, he continues to tour with Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee. 408 pages | 15 b&w photos | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface to the New Edition Prologue: 1969 Part One: New Life 1. If That Don’t Bring Her Back 2. Everybody in Harlem Knows Satan 3. Young Man With a Horn 4. No Bad Fella 5. White Boys Part Two: Pretty Girls 6. Roaming 7. Downhearted Blues 8. “La Belle Dame sans Merci” 9. Sweet Harlem Summer Part Three: Big River 10. Labor Day 11. Going Someplace 12. Catfish on the Raft 13. A Gentle, Fumbling Thing 14. Ball of Fire 15. Back Down Yonder Part Four: Hot Town 16. Do the Right Thing 17. Billed Out 18. Angel Sound Part Five: Harlem Blues 19. The Same Old Mess 20. What We’ve Been Trying For, All These Years Epilogue: April 1998 Thanks Permissions Acknowledgments

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