Adam Gussow didn’t study the blues first—he survived them. Before the books, the classroom, and the professor’s chair at Ole Miss, Adam Gussow came up on the streets of Harlem—playing harmonica alongside the late Mister Satan. That lived experience didn’t just shape his sound; it shaped a lifetime of thinking, writing, and teaching about what the blues really mean. In this episode of Talking Blues, Adam Gussow traces the long road from busking corners to becoming one of the most thoughtful voice