Stephane DESCHAMPS

Stéphane Deschamps grew up between city and countryside, on the edge of a railway line (Paris-Bordeaux line). Hence, no doubt, his taste for travel and rural American music, where the mythology of the train has always been important. At the end of the nineties, he joined the editorial staff of Les Inrockuptibles as a reporter, a magazine for which he had worked periodically since the beginning of the same decade. For Les Inrocks, and during his many trips to the USA, he likes to confront his love of music with the reality on the ground. Which leads him, for example, to try to repair the wheelchair of a blues singer in northern Mississippi, to swim in a Californian river with a folk singer, to eat hamburgers in Elvis' favorite restaurant or to interview a sleeping John Lee Hooker... In each city where he stops, he begins by looking for record stores, with a preference for albums by singers who have passed away and who recorded between 1927 and 1956. Stéphane Deschamps is a passer-by of the original, parallel blues, played off the beaten track, and Blues Power is his first book.