It's for You: Muddy Waters's “Long Distance Call” and How Delta Blues Re-Set the Controls for the Heart of the Earth

In this paper the author expresses his view that the music of the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S.A. was a major instigator in returning musical impulses to a more natural and intuitive path, while also presaging many of the formal compositional innovations that took place in the latter half of the 20th century.