Robert Palmer, author of Deep Blues, and Dave Stewart, a member of Eurythmics, pay tribute to the Mississippi blues and various blues artists. Special features include performance footage outtakes and 45 minutes of bonus audio tracks.

"Featuring rare archive footage, exclusive interviews, contribution from the musicians with whom Stevie Ray worked and the people who knew him best, seldom seen photographs and a host of other features which all at once provide for the finest document on the celebrated late guitarist et to emerge"--Container.

"A rare collection of performances by America's premier bluesmen at the peak of their artistry"--Container.

Traces the evolution of blues music from its origins in the rural south and focuses on its development in the urban environment of Chicago. Interwoven with performances by Muddy Waters and others and interviews with Dick Gregory and others.

"In 1990, commissioned by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working. Starting on Beale Street in Memphis, they headed south to the juke joints, lounges, front porches, and parlors of Holly Springs, Greenville, Clarksdale, Bentonia, and Lexington....

Concert footage taped at the Bonnaroo music festival from 2004.

Features rare and memorable film performances of the greatest performers like Bessie Smith, Son House, Jimmy Rushing, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, and B.B. King. Follows the music's many tributaries as blues flows into the sophisticated jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, the rhythm and blues of Louis Jordan and Dinah Washington, and the rock 'n' roll of Chuck Berry and...

Reveals a 1960s music scene that grew out of an unlikely Long Island community. Featuring incredible performances by blues greats which have never before been captured and presented, the documentary is a unique look into music history.

Second program of beginning instruction in playing blues on piano with an emphasis on improvisation.

This ground breaking television series features authentic traditional music played in the atmosphere of an informal back porch picking party. "Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee": Sonny and Brownie were one of the most enduring blues acts of the post-war era, forming an association that was to last for three decades. "Mississippi John Hurt, Hedy West and Paul Cadwell": Superb guitar playing and gentle, expressive voice has made Mississippi John one of...