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Before the Blues

on BBC Radio 3

A series of eight programmes in which Paul Oliver looks at the origins of blues music and at the kinds of music which preceded it.
7: John Henry and the Boll Weevil
White ballad traditions gave a form which black 'songsters' could use, but they sang of heroes with whom they could identify - the indestructible insect, the boll weevil, the steel-driver John Henry , and the bad man Railroad Bill. Mono

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Paul Oliver
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John Henry
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John Henry
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Railroad Bill.

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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