大象传媒

This programme is part a collection of 大象传媒 programmes featuring influential blues musicians, including B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Sonny Boy Williamson.

More raw performances from great Blues performers. Big Joe Williams perform a song he used to sing to people standing in line outside soup kitchens set up for the unemployed in St Louis during the depression of the 1930s. There's also Henry Townsend, whose Blues reflected the poverty and racism he experienced. His Blues were a relief from pressure - he moved between speakeasies and private parties picking up dimes where he could. Here he performs his own brand of Blues at an open top piano.

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