The Afro-American APPALACHES BLUES
Blues
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1h 32m
The Blues from the mountains.
The Appalachian Mountains are only now beginning to be recognized as one of the primary incubators of African-American music, especially the blues tradition.
Appalachian blues comes in a variety of styles - vaudeville blues, piano blues and boogie, string-band dance blues, guitar and harmonica-based down-home blues, ragtime blues, East Coast rhythm and blues, and so-called white mountain blues. Moreover, it includes such celebrated artists as Bessie Smith, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Cow Cow Davenport, Pinetop Smith, Josh White, Rev. Gary Davis, Jaybird Coleman, Luke Jordan, Dinah Washington, and James Brown.
Why, with such an array of blues legends - the Empress of the blues, the Queen of the blues, and the Godfather of soul - has the region's blues tradition received so little attention?
Cast: Appalaches Blues
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