The Blues

Duration: 21

Year Published: 1963

Creator: Macmillan

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Legendary blues singers portray through their laments and their music some of the basic components of the blues: loneliness, poverty, insecurity, and social discrimination. Features J. D. Short, Pink Anderson, Fury Lewis, Baby Tate, Memphis Willie B., Gus Canon, and Sleepy John Estes., A documentary of the music and environment of several of the most important surviving blues singers living in the cities and on the farms of the South: J. D. Short, Pink Anderson, Furry Lewis, Baby Tate, Memphis Willie B., Gus Cannon, and Sleepy John Estes. Through their comments and their music they sketch some of the themes--loneliness poverty, insecurity, and social discrimination--that have shaped the blues.

Complete Record: Legendary blues singers portray through their laments and their music some of the basic components of the blues: loneliness, poverty, insecurity, and social discrimination. Features J. D. Short, Pink Anderson, Fury Lewis, Baby Tate, Memphis Willie B., Gus Canon, and Sleepy John Estes. , A documentary of the music and environment of several of the most important surviving blues singers living in the cities and on the farms of the South: J. D. Short, Pink Anderson, Furry Lewis, Baby Tate, Memphis Willie B., Gus Cannon, and Sleepy John Estes. Through their comments and their music they sketch some of the themes--loneliness poverty, insecurity, and social discrimination--that have shaped the blues.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.