Bruce Bastin

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Bruce Bastin (born 19 September 1939, died 16 June 2024) was an English folklorist and a leading expert on the blues music styles of the southeastern states of America (East Coast Blues and Piedmont Blues).^[1] In 2022, his publication Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, as a 'Classic of Blues Literature'.^[2]

He was responsible for research (done initially with folklorist Peter B. Lowry) over the decades.^[3]