Sinners and the Blues
An Analysis of the Blues as Storyform
In the Beginning Was the Blues
In his 1976 book Stomping the Blues, Albert Murray set out to reveal a truth about the blues: something self-evident, yet often overlooked. The blues, for all its preoccupation with “the most harrowing anxieties, hardships, and misfortunes,” as Murray put it, was fundamentally a music specifically contrived to be entertain…
