The Land Where the Blues Began (1979)
58m
Running Time
December 1, 1979Release Date
The Land Where the Blues Began (1979)
58m
Running Time
December 1, 1979Release Date
Plot.
An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in 1978 by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television and broadcast on PBS in 1980. This re-release in 2009 includes two hours of additional music.
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This Movie Is About.
blues music
music
Wiki.
The Land Where the Blues Began is a documentary film. In 1991, five films of 60 minutes each were shown on American television as part of the American Patchwork Series. The Land Where the Blues Began is the first of these films. In the 1930s and 1940s, Alan and his father John traveled to the Mississippi Delta and made early recordings of the local blues musicians. He went back to shoot with John M at the end of the 1970s. They recorded music and stories by a number of blues musicians, including JohnnyBrooks, Walter Brown, Bill Gordon, James Hall, and William S. Jack Owens, Wilbert Puckett, and Hart were all from the same family. T. A book and a CD with the same title were published.