He recently won the Jazz Journalists Association's Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for writing in 2011.

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This collaboration between the documentary maker Robert Mugge and the music critic Robert Palmer (who wrote the sweeping, inclusive 1981 history of the same name), is a lovably rough-hewn presentation of rural blues today.

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Like Dave Palmer depicting Robert E.

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Dave Palmer has been depicting General Robert E.

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Hanging in Robert Johnson's den at home is an oil from the 1930s by an African-American artist named Palmer Hayden.

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