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Aspects of the Blues

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

with Francis Smith
5: Tragedy and Disaster
America has suffered from the worst excesses of weather. Elzadie Robinson sings of the devastation caused by the St Louis Cyclone in 1927, and, in the same year, the Mississippi experienced the worst flood in its history, as described by Kansas Joe and Charley Patton. Gene Gilmore sings of ' The Natchez Fire' when 200 people died in a ballroom fire. Producer DEREK DRESCHER

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Francis Smith
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Elzadie Robinson
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Charley Patton.
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Gene Gilmore
Producer:
Derek Drescher
Source: Radio Times

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