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The Blues / PBS
PBS Online — The Blues: a multi-media project anchored by seven impressionistic and interpretive films that capture the essence of the blues while exploring how this art form so deeply influenced people the world over. Under the guiding vision of Executive ...More…
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The Blues . Partners
PBS Online — WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of nearly one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup and companion online content as well as many public radio favorites. Its production menu is diverse, including on PBS, and ...More…
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The Blues . The Songs & the Artists
PBS Online — Learn more about the musicians featured in the film series in the The passionate and uniquely American art form known as the blues was born in the steamy fields, dusty street corners and ramshackle juke joints of the Deep South in the late 1800s. ...More…
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The Blues . Blues Road Trip
PBS Online — Road Trip traces the migration of the blues throughout the USA from its origins in slave communities on plantations in the Deep South. The blues, a mix of African and New World musical influences, spread from its birthplace in the Mississippi ...More…
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The Blues . Sign Up
PBS Online — Web site, information on educational initiatives, and news of the release of the project-related book, CDs, videos/DVDs. And, when available, the updates will include sneak-preview video or audio clips. See a sample email newsletter. Sign up here ...More…
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The Blues . The Songs & the Artists . About the Radio Series
PBS Online — The series opens with a celebration and definition of blues music. Interviewees include Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Chuck D, John Popper, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many more. Though the blues is an American music form, ...More…
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The Blues . Piano Blues
PBS Online — Says Eastwood: "The blues has always been part of my musical life and the piano has a special place, beginning when my mother brought home all of Fats Waller's records. Also, the music has always played a part in my movies. A piano blues ...More…
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The Blues . Blues Classroom
PBS Online — The blues is one of America's greatest musical treasures. A roots music form that evolved out of African-American work songs, field hollers, spirituals, and country string ballads more than a century ago, the blues is the foundation of virtually ...More…
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The Blues . Warming by the Devil's Fire
PBS Online — Says Burnett: "The sound of the blues was a part of my environment that I took for granted. However, as years passed, the blues slowly emerged as an essential source of imagery, humor, irony, and insight that allows one to reflect on the human ...More…
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The Blues . Partners & Resources
PBS Online — Project was created by an unprecedented coalition of film, music, literature, and education partners. Visit the Partners page for more in-depth information on the companies and foundations that brought this comprehensive multimedia project to ...More…
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The Blues . About the Film Series
PBS Online — The series begins with the journey from Africa to the Mississippi Delta where the music grew from slaves' field hollers, work songs and spirituals then travels up the Mississippi River to the juke joints, house parties and recording studios ...More…
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The Blues . The Soul of a Man
PBS Online — Says Wenders: "These songs meant the world to me. I felt there was more truth in them than in any book I had read about America, or in any movie I had ever seen. I've tried to describe, more like a poem than in a 'documentary,' what moved ...More…