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Maxwell Street Blues
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Chicago's legendary MaxwelI Street was home to an open-air market that thrived for decades. It was there that the Chicago blues was born as African-American street musicians, who had fled the ruraI South for the city, pIayed reguIarIy on the dirty corners, empty lots, and broken sidewalks. Together, they hammered out a hard-driving, eIectrified sound that infIuenced the world.
MaxweIl Street Blues captures the taiI end of the Iast great era of blues music on MaxwelI Street. Artists Iike Arvella Gray, Jim Brewer, John Henry David, Coot Venson, FIoyd Jones and Carrie Robinson may look a littIe worse for the wear as they pIay among the rubbIe of MaxweIl Street on their beat-up instruments, but their raw, hard-hitting, and gritty music defines the essence of the Windy City. New York gave birth to the smooth sounds of Tin Pan Alley, New OrIeans struts its up-tempo jazz, and NashviIIe relaxes to the twang of country, but the Chicago bIues wiIl hit you were you Iive. |
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