Revisiting Ralph Lembo was published in the ARSC Journal in December 2018. The editor of the ARSC Journal made the decision to publish a response from Gayle Dean Wardlow and Ed Komara in July 2019. This is my answer. I originally submitted Revisiting Ralph Lembo in hopes that Ed Komara would be the reader who ARSC Journal editor Sarah Bryan sent it out to upon submission in September 2017. I learned about the revised King of the Delta Blues manuscript in the summer, as he had announced his projected end of the year submission on the RBF Book Forum, a Facebook group once controlled by Ulf Burgenblad. Whereas I expected to learn about some lost cache of research that warranted the book’s revisions, I ended up receiving no notes whatsoever or even a standard letter of recommendation for publication from the peer reviewers. I believe that Komara was the peer reviewer because I only received a request through the editor to cut a crucial section of text from the manuscript. It was an important analysis, however, and it’s a good thing that I only moved it to footnote 69.