Christy Edwall

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Harry Strawson |Mia Levitin |Alberto Manguel |Christy Edwall

“If it keeps on rainin’”, sings Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin’s 1971 track, “levee’s gonna break.” The song is a cover of a 1929 recording by Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie, inspired by the Great Mississippi flood of 1927; the untitled (fourth) album on which it appeared went on to sell more than 37 million copies. In the world of record-label scouts known as “song-catchers”, conjured up in Xan Brooks’s well-crafted new work of historical fiction, that is what is known as a very big fish.

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Christy Edwall

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