Robert Lockwood Jr. playing “Love in Vain” Appearing in “American Epic: Blood and Soil.”
PBS
Travel the country in search of unknown 1920s artists, when the music of ordinary Americans was recorded for the first time, transforming music forever, in a three-part film narrated by Robert Redford, featuring Jack White, Nas, Taj Mahal and others.
Blood and Soul
Tuesday, May 23
Travel to the rural South as Elder Burch, Charley Patton and others record early Delta blues, gospel and protest songs. The Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi River communities, leading to northern migration and Chicago Blues by Howlin’ Wolf.
American Epic, Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS 6.
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