Adam Gussow
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Adam Gussow

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A professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Adam Gussow is also a professional blues harmonica player and teacher. He is best known for his long partnership with Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee, a Mississippi-born bluesman with whom Gussow began busking on the sidewalks of Harlem in 1986. Gussow's books include Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (1998), Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (2002), Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York (2007), Busker's Holiday (2015), Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition (2017), and Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music (2020). His newest book is My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir (2025). In 2018, the documentary "Satan & Adam," an inspiring exploration of Magee's and Gussow's partnership, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and screened for several years on Netflix. Gussow's latest musical endeavor is a trio, Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors, featuring singer Rod Patterson, the nephew of Sterling Magee. The trio's albums include Come Together (2020) and Keeping It In the Family (2022). Born in New York City on April 3, 1958, Gussow grew up in the downstate hamlet of Congers, NY.
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