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Blind Singer Joe's Blues by Robert Love Taylor (review)

Blind Singer Joe's Blues by Robert Love Taylor (review) Robert Love Taylor. BlindSingerJoe'sBlues. Dallas: SouthernMethodist University Press, 2006. 222 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $22.50. as the bloodlines among the characters in Blind Singer Joe's Blues, Novelist Robert Love Taylor's literary heritage is as interesting Taylor's fifth publication of fiction. Taylor is the great grandnephew of his namesake, the first Robert Love Taylor--East Tennessee lawyer, publisher, writer, U.S. Representative, Senator, and three time Tennessee governor--"Our Bob" as he was popularly known. Tennesseans continue to tell the story of the famous "War of the Roses" gubernatorial campaign of 1886 when Robert Love Taylor and his brother Alf competed for the governorship through lively speech making and fiddle playing. Later in his political career Taylor is said to have "discovered" and hired the first country music recording artist, Fiddlin' John Carson, to campaign for him. This backstory is fun to know because our present novelist, Robert Love Taylor, uses his family's musical background and his own love and knowledge of music to craft a story as complex as the fiddle tune played by one of Taylor's characters. That tune, like Taylor's story, "had a slippery, eerie sweetness to it, moving in strange ways, one part giving way to the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Blind Singer Joe's Blues by Robert Love Taylor (review)

Appalachian Review , Volume 35 (2) – Jan 8, 2007

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Robert Love Taylor. BlindSingerJoe'sBlues. Dallas: SouthernMethodist University Press, 2006. 222 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $22.50. as the bloodlines among the characters in Blind Singer Joe's Blues, Novelist Robert Love Taylor's literary heritage is as interesting Taylor's fifth publication of fiction. Taylor is the great grandnephew of his namesake, the first Robert Love Taylor--East Tennessee lawyer, publisher, writer, U.S. Representative, Senator, and three time Tennessee governor--"Our Bob" as he was popularly known. Tennesseans continue to tell the story of the famous "War of the Roses" gubernatorial campaign of 1886 when Robert Love Taylor and his brother Alf competed for the governorship through lively speech making and fiddle playing. Later in his political career Taylor is said to have "discovered" and hired the first country music recording artist, Fiddlin' John Carson, to campaign for him. This backstory is fun to know because our present novelist, Robert Love Taylor, uses his family's musical background and his own love and knowledge of music to craft a story as complex as the fiddle tune played by one of Taylor's characters. That tune, like Taylor's story, "had a slippery, eerie sweetness to it, moving in strange ways, one part giving way to the

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2007

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