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Meaning in the Blues

BBC Radio 3
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Blues is a part folk, part popular musical form, expressive of the lives of black Americans. In the first often programmes, Paul Oliver talks with several singers, including John Lee Hooker, Boogie Woogie Red, Robert Smith and Henry Townsend , and introduces examples of their music on records. Mono

Contributors

Talks:
Paul Oliver
Unknown:
John Lee
Unknown:
Robert Smith
Unknown:
Henry Townsend
Source: Radio Times

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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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