The Hero and the Blues Author:Albert Murray In this visionary book, the author of the legendary Stomping the Blues takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way we read all literature. Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart in... more »formation, wisdom, and moral guidance. Both place a high value on improvisation. And both fiction and blues create a delicate balance between the holy and the obscene, essential human values and cosmic absurdity.« less