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The Death of the Blues?

on BBC Radio 3

Hip-hop writer Harry Allen , formerly known as the Media Assassin in the band Public Enemy, claims no specialist knowledge of the blues except in terms of nerves and emotions.
Travelling to Mississippi, he meets the last of a dying breed: musicians like RL Burnside and Willie King , who began life on the cotton plantations. He discovers a musical tradition that has been defined and then confined by white mainstream culture. Producer Miles Warde

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Harry Allen
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Willie King
Producer:
Miles Warde

BBC Radio 3

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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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