[2] He is responsible for research (done initially with folklorist Peter B. Lowry) over the decades.
A former secondary school geography teacher, he holds a master's degree in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the author of two books on the Piedmont blues, Crying for the Carolines and Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast, as well as a biography of music publisher Joe Davis, Never Sell a Copyright.
[4] He has written articles for music journals and books over the decades, plus liner note essays on the Southeastern blues style.
Bruce Bastin is also the managing director of Interstate Music, Ltd., West Sussex, England, with its labels: He has produced and/or programmed albums for them in many musical genres, generally re-issue in nature.
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