A history of the blues
A series of five films telling the story of black American blues music and the people who sang and played it.
It was in the years after slavery ended that the blues began, in the cottonfields, the labour camp barrelhouses and city red-light districts of the Deep South. Including film of Lead Belly, Sam Chatmon, Little Brother Montgomery, Booker White, James Deshay
Book (same title), £3-00, from bookshops from 18 Nov