Sterling Magee

Sterling Magee

Satan and Adam was an American blues duo consisting of Sterling Magee, known by his stage name "Mister Satan" (May 20, 1936 – 6 September 2020, in Gulfport, Florida), and Adam Gussow (born April 3, 1958 in New York City, New York), who were a fixture on Harlem's sidewalks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Magee sang in a style that fuses blues with elements of soul and rap, playing electric guitar with withering intensity, and used both feet to stomp out polyrhythms on a homemade percussion setup that included hi-hat cymbals topped with tambourines and maracas. Gussow played amplified harmonica in an equally fluent and original way. Together, Satan and Adam have, as journalist Richard Skelley noted, "redefined and shaped the sound of modern blues so much that 'I Want You' from their Harlem Blues debut was included on a Rhino Records release, Modern Blues of the 1990s.

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