| Seems like murder here: Southern violence and the blues tradition A Gussow University of Chicago Press, 2002 | 215 | 2002 |
| New thoughts on the Black arts movement A Nelson, K Jones, J Smethurst, W Walters, C Pollard, E Duganne, ... Rutgers University Press, 2006 | 191 | 2006 |
| Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition A Gussow UNC Press Books, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| " Shoot Myself a Cop": Mamie Smith's" Crazy Blues" as Social Text A Gussow Callaloo 25 (1), 8-44, 2002 | 24 | 2002 |
| ‘If Bessie Smith Had Killed Some White People’: Racial Legacies, the Blues Revival, and the Black Arts Movement A Gussow New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, 227-52, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| Playing chicken with the train: Cowboy Troy’s hick-hop and the transracial country west A Gussow Southern Cultures 16 (4), 41-70, 2010 | 15 | 2010 |
| Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir A Gussow U of Minnesota Press, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York A Gussow Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2007 | 14 | 2007 |
| Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music A Gussow UNC Press Books, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| " Fingering the Jagged Grain": Ellison's Wright and the Southern Blues Violences A Gussow boundary 2 30 (2), 137-155, 2003 | 11 | 2003 |
| “Where Is the Love?” Racial Violence, Racial Healing, and Blues Communities A Gussow Southern cultures 12 (4), 33-54, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| " Make My Getaway": The Blues Lives of Black Minstrels in WC Handy's Father of the Blues A Gussow African American Review 35 (1), 5-28, 2001 | 9 | 2001 |
| Ain't No Burnin'Hell: Southern Religion and the Devil's Music. A Gussow Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 41 (2), 2010 | 8 | 2010 |
| Plaintive Reiterations and Meaningless Strains: Faulkner’s Blues Understandings A Gussow Faulkner’s Inheritance: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 53-81, 2005 | 8 | 2005 |
| Racial Violence," Primitive" Music, and the Blues Entrepreneur: WC Handy's Mississippi Problem A Gussow Southern Cultures 8 (3), 56-77, 2002 | 8 | 2002 |
| Dreaming Holmberry-lipped Tess: Aboriginal Reverie and Spectatorial Desire in" Tess of the d'Urbervilles" A Gussow Studies in the Novel 32 (4), 442-463, 2000 | 8 | 2000 |
| WC Handy and the “Birth” of the Blues A Gussow Southern Cultures 24 (4), 42-68, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| Blues Expressiveness and the Blues Ethos A Gussow | 6 | 2018 |
| Heaven and Hell Parties: Ministers, Bluesmen, and Black Youth in the Mississippi Delta, 1920-1942. A Gussow Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 41 (3), 2010 | 5 | 2010 |
| Blues literature A Gussow The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture 9, 44-51, 2008 | 5 | 2008 |
