Dickerson - Mojo triangle: birthplace of country, blues, jazz and rock & roll

A rich and rewarding book.

B ETH G OEHRING , The Literary Guild

Mojo Triangle is the seminal nexus of psychology, history, and aesthetics. It crystallizes the essence of Ernie K-Does quote, Im not sure, but Im almost positive, that all music came from New Orleans. Black Top Records CD entitled Neville-Ization is perhaps the best example of The Gumbo That Keeps on Giving. Ditto for Otis Reddings original version of Respect that encapsulates the Memphis sound in Great Balls of Fire. Dickersons notion of genetic and cultural history is supported by Jungs psychological archetype. The fruits of natural expression are indeed country, blues, jazz, and rock n roll.

G REG G ORMANOUS , Ph.D.
Psychologist and Professor of Psychology
Louisiana State University at Alexandria

In the search for a unified-field theory of American popular music, few journalists come as well equipped as James L. Dickerson. Blessed with the scene-setting panache of a natural storyteller, an eye for the telling detail, and the audacity to reach for the big picture, Dickerson has walked back out of the jungle bearing this remarkable, pioneering compendium. The mojo triangle of his title is what you get when you play connect-the-dots with Memphis, Nashville, and New Orleans: A multicultural musical stew, four kinds of holy ground, andnot incidentallya land bisected by the Natchez Trace, ancient footpath of an Indian tribe whose vital antebellum contributions to black and white musical traditions are merely one of this books many revelations. Again and again Dickerson dredges up forgotten or suppressed histories and teases out connections that other historians of southern music have missed. I learned a great deal from this book.

A DAM G USSOW , author
Mister Satans Apprentice: A Blues Memoir and
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition

Mojo Triangle asserts that while Americas popular music may be worldwide in scope, its all still being created in that mystical cauldron of the South. Mojo Triangle doesnt miss a single ingredient in analyzing the recipeor the cooks. It dissects important and previously obscured elements as diverse as genetics and the influence of Native American culture on blues and rock n roll.

B ROWN B URNETT , editor,
BlueSpeak Magazine

Mojo Triangle is a very good book. Author Jim Dickerson, a southerner himself, has written a great, in-depth history of the area and its musical background all aimed at the birthplace of American music. He hit it right on the button.

S COTTY M OORE ,
Guitarist and Elvis first manager

Copyright 2005 James L. Dieckerson
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ISBN: 978-0-85712-507-1

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To my college roommate, Billy Bobbs, an Ole Miss Deke
who kept the music of Bobby Blue Bland,
Mose Allison, and Jimmy Reed wafting through Kincannon Hall.