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By Ace Atkins

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Unabridged — 9 hours, 56 minutes

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Overview

In the 1950s, Ruby Walker boarded the Illinois Central from Mississippi to the Promised Land-Chicago. She became one of the greatest blues singers the city has ever known, only to lose everything when she was convicted of murdering her lover and producer, Billy Lyons, in 1959. She's been
locked in a prison cell ever since.

Now, a flickering hope emerges for Walker in the form of letters from a Tulane University blues historian named Nick Travers. She agrees to an interview only in exchange f...