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Before the Blues

on BBC Radio 3

An eight-part series in which Paul Oliver looks at blues music.
6: Doctor Medicine
The medicine shows of the southern "doctors" and other travelling shows provided work for many "songsters" and blues singers.

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Paul Oliver

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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