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doi:10.14325/mississippi/9781496841698.002.0008

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I am writing here both as a friend and research colleague of Luigi Monge and as editor for the University Press of Mississippi’s American Made Music Series. Luigi was a recent graduate from the University of Genova and a budding blues researcher when he and I met briefly at the Chicago Blues Festival in 1987 and exchanged our first correspondence. Two years later we became better acquainted when I was touring in France and Italy as guitar accompanist to the great bluesman Johnny Shines. The organization of which Luigi was secretary, Associazione Culturale “Liguria Blues—Genova,” sponsored one of our concerts, and it was among the more memorable ones of the tour, especially because the Association put us up in a small hotel redolent of nineteenth-century splendor on the outskirts of the city overlooking the Mediterranean and a topless beach.

It was not until 1997, however, the year after I became series editor, that we began to correspond more regularly, with Luigi sending me English translations of his writings on blues lyrics for my commentary. Up to that time I had encountered hardly any writing in English by Italian scholars on African American blues, much less on blues lyrics. It was a topic that required a high degree of cultural knowledge as well as an ear for idiomatic speech and dialect, qualities that were rare even among American scholars at the time. I recognized immediately that here was someone possessing unusual insight into the creative literary processes of blues singers and composers, and I began to hope that our correspondence and my encouragement of his efforts might someday result in a book for the series. Little did I realize that it would take another quarter-century for the result to appear, but it has been well worth the wait and the interim has hardly been unproductive on Luigi’s part.

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