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Blues masters : the essential history of the blues / a Lanny Lee production ; City Island Entertainment.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 1061
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blues (Music).
- Blues (Music)--History and criticism.
- Blues musicians.
- Musicians, Blacks.
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- African American musicians.
- Genre:
- Performances.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Essential history of the blues
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Rhino Home Video, [2002]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Rare performances and historical footage tracing the development of American blues music.
- Contents:
- Levee blues (Son House)
- Pick a bale o' cotton (Leadbelly)
- St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith)
- Lord, Lord, Lord [and] Harlem blues (Mamie Smith)
- Hey, lawdy mama (Roy Milton)
- Take me back, baby (Jimmy Rushing)
- Quicksand (Ethel Waters)
- Guitar shuffle (Big Bill Broonzy)
- Four day creep (Ida Cox)
- Fine and mellow (Billie Holiday)
- Hound dog (Big Mama Thornton)
- Hoochie coochie man (Muddy Waters)
- Shake, rattle and roll (Big Joe Turner)
- Going to Chicago (Joe Williams)
- I got my eyes on you (Buddy Guy)
- Ain't nobody's business (Jimmy Witherspoon)
- Darlin' you know I love you (B.B. King).
- Participant:
- Narrator, Chuck Niles.
- Credits:
- Director, L.L. Tarter ; writer/assistant director, Barbara L. Kaye ; editor, Laurence J. Rosen.
- Notes:
- Title from disc surface.
- Not rated.
- Previously published on two videocassettes in 1993.
- ISBN:
- 1566058414
- 9781566058414
- OCLC:
- 49920493
- Publisher Number:
- R2 976075 Rhino Home Video
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