The Life of Robert Palmer (Sandhog: Friday, 13 November 2009)

The late Robert Palmer was best known as a New York Times music critic, Rolling Stone editor and author of the book Deep Blues. Others knew him as a musicologist and record producer. But Palmer was also a difficult man whose ambitions and addictions overshadowed loved ones. We talk with writer and critic Anthony DeCurtis, editor of a new collection of Palmer's work called Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer.