Blues Narrative: Blues People, COVID-19, and Civil Unrest

Lamont Jack Pearley is an applied folklorist, ethnographer, and African American traditional music historian and practitioner. He is currently enrolled at Western Kentucky University (WKU) as a Broadcast major and Folk Studies and African American Studies minor. He is the founder, curator, and editor of The African American Folklorist website, WKU’s African American Studies ambassador, the host of a weekly segment on NPR/WKU Public Radio called the African American Folklorist, and the editor of the African American Folklorist newspaper. He was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as a Great Blues Historian and TV/Radio Producer (2017) and a Great Blues Artist (2018).