Vic, I wish you hadn't mentioned that book here.
It will only matter if the person who brings a nasty edge with his every post gets here.... and I don't think the title of this thread will attract him.

And I take what you say about blues singers. In fact I'd take it further and say I don't think that any contemporary Afro-American could bring to the blues what Robert Johnson did - much as I admire Corey Harris.