Black American blues music has become the greatest single influence on contemporary popular music. In a series of eight programmes, Paul Oliver looks at its origins and at the music which preceded it. 1: Blues in Retrospect
To set the scene, a look at the Mississippi tradition and at other aspects of the blues form, with records by BESSIE SMITH ,
LEADBELLY. MUDDY WATERS. ELMORE JAMES and CHARLEY PATTON Producer DEREK DRESCHER