Adam Gussow

Adam is a professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and a blues harmonica player and teacher. He has published a number of books on the blues, including Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (1998), Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition (2017), and Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (2020). Gussow's longtime musical partnership with Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee was the subject of an award-winning documentary, Satan & Adam (2018), which screened on Netflix for two years.