The Sears Catalog, Jim Crow, and Muddy Waters
October 20, 2018 6:32 PM Subscribe
"There was an amalgamation of a number of things that led to the development of the blues and the acoustic guitars being bought through the Sears catalog was certainly one of them," said Michael Roberts, who teaches a class on the history of the blues at DePaul University in Chicago. "It was inexpensive enough that the blues artists were able to save up the money they made as sharecroppers to make that purchase."
This post was deleted for the following reason: Let's put this in the active Sears + Jim Crow thread! -- Eyebrows McGee
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