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I've always liked Skip James. There are a couple of compilations out there, mainly of re-recordings he made in the 60s of tracks originally set down in 1931. I'm not an expert though, so I have no idea how mainstream he is.

I'm currently reading Al Franken's 'Lies and the Lying Liars...' (I'm visiting the US, glued to the car-crash that is FOX News); 'Battle Cry of Freedom' by James McPherson (In Virginia, cradle of the civil war), and browsing a copy of the Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore I got at one of...