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The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom thro...

This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse E...

In this compact reference, this most popular of styles is celebrated by decade, from the early years with Charley Patton, through the forties and fifties with John Lee Hooker and Fats Domino, to Robert Cray in the Eighties and how Blues is being made today.