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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, My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir, will be published by Post Hill Press in 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. "Satan & Adam" is currently streamable on Amazon and available as a DVD.
Gussow's latest musical endeavor is a trio, Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors, featuring frontman Rod Patterson. A singer/dancer and motivational speaker, Patterson is 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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