Deep Ellum

In Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas, Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield examine the unique cultural environment of Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood, which helped spawn such seminal blues and jazz musicians as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Buster Smith, and T-Bone Walker. As Govenar and Brakefield demonstrate, Deep Ellum also helped influence western swing and other genres of music.