SOURCE: "Brer Robert: The Bluesman and the African American Trickster Tale Tradition," in Southern Folk-lore, Vol. 48, No. 2, 1991, pp. 141-57.
In the following essay, Siems discusses parallels between African-American folktales and accounts of the lives of famous blues musicians.
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