Blues Hall of Fame Inductee--Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta. In 1941 and '42 African American schol-ars from Fisk University--among them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr. --joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their mis shy;sion was "to document adequately the cul shy;tural and social backgrounds for music in the community. " Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitar shy;ist Muddy Waters. The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publica shy;tion of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, Lost Delta Found is com shy;posed of the writings, interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions produced by Work, Jones, and Adams in the Coahoma County study. Their work captures, with compelling immediacy, a place, a people, a way of life, and a set of rich musical tra shy;ditions as they existed in the 1940s. Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.