Thursday, June 2, 2011
New review of CROSS ROAD BLUES
Writer and blues enthusiast Ricky Bush has a nice review of my crime novel Cross Road Blues up at his blogsite: http://www.bushdogblues.blogspot.com/
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech.
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Is this novel making a Robert Johnson reference?
ReplyDeletemsmariah- indeed it is. It's about a blues harmonica player in 1957 Nashville who gets in over his head with some shady characters, one of whom wants to be the next Robert Johnson. I plan to make it a series, with each one titled and themed after a Johnson song- Last Fair Deal Gone Down, Up Jumped the Devil, and so on.
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