The word "blue" has been associated with melancholia or depression since the Elizabethan era, but it took the savagery of America's Deep South to turn it into an art form. Washington DC traditional blues singer Michael Roach searches for the roots of his music.
1: In the cotton plantations, such as Dockery's, near Clarksdale in the Misssissippi Delta, back-breaking labour was anaesthetised with moonshine, ladies of easy virtue and the new, raw music of Charley Patton. Producer Paul Evans