If The Delta Was The Sea (CD)

This companion CD to his poetry collection of the same name (Hanging Loose, 2009) features Dick Lourie who is both a poet and a blues musician performing selections from the book. These poems explore and celebrate the life, the history, and the culture of the Mississippi Delta through a focus on the city of Clarksdale. Accompanied by musicians from his blues band, he reads the poems and plays his own sax solos. Together with the book, this CD offers a vivid rendering of Lourie’s experience visiting the Delta over a period of fifteen years as a poet and musician welcomed into the still vital and energetic Delta blues community.