"Blues Story", the DVD from the PBS program

[poodlesrule]

I picked up this DVD at my local library, "Blues Story"
It may be from a 2003 PBS program, per the jacket info?

Riveting interviews... great guitar-picking!

A snapshot of how hard was life for some folks down south, back then: "...You were so poor, you could not move [to another town/state]". Koko Taylor explains how her father was paid in flour, molasses, these sort of things.

The 2003 copyright is deceiving though, because there are interviews of some contemporaries of Robert Johnson, so, some interviews must be from older archives.

120 minutes of real people.

Watch it!

 

[mainestratman]

:beer:

Thanks for the heads up. We're gonna invest in this.

 

[poodlesrule]

:beer:

Thanks for the heads up. We're gonna invest in this.

I forgot to mention that it is more documentary than musical performance, the people behind the early blues, the world they came from... Buddy guy recounting his first day in Chicago... several people praising Muddy Waters for his help, and, of course, the money issues with Chess!