Advance commentary:

"(The  authors) have brought together a truly remarkable collection of blues and blues songs, created by African American hoboes and ex- hoboes, which reveals a new dimension of the personal and experiential nature of the poetic spirit in the blues.... This is not a book solely for blues fans--for whom it is indispensable --but is strongly recommended to all who are interested in popular culture, its forms, its expression and meaning." Paul Oliver

What critics have said about Woman with   Guitar:

"The authors have added a new dimension to blues scholarship." Paul Oliver

"...a delight, thorough and brilliant." D Roediger

What critics have said about Blues and the  Poetic Spirit:

"A new and important approach to the analysis of the blues." Samuel Floyd

"The special merit of Blues and the Poetic Spirit lies in its illumination of the poetic beauty and subversive power of the blues through the sights of a radical perspective." Carl Boggs, Socialist Review

"One of the most important surrealist texts to come out of the United States." Robin DG Kelley