Sunday 11 January 2015

BBC Arena Blues Night; Blues Classics



Some great blues film clips here

"First transmitted in 1985, this medley of the blues features Fred McDowell, Thomas 'Georgia Tom' Dorsey, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

Huddie Ledbetter - better known as 'Lead Belly' - performs 'Pick a Bale of Cotton', and Billie Holiday accompanied by Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Roy Eldridge, performs her own composition 'Fine and Mellow'."

More Arena Blues Nights on BBC iPlayer

Sonny Boy Williamson

Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy

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