Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music & Poetry with Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez

Singer-songwriter Mike Mattison is an award-winning musician and founding member of Scrapomatic and Tedeschi Trucks Band. Ernest Suarez is the David M. O’Connell Professor of English at the Catholic University of America and the executive director of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. They joined forces to create “Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry,” a book that lovingly examines the relationship between blues-based music and poetry starting in the 1950s. This episode of Watching America is a must-listen for “music freaks” and literary lovers alike.