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Maxwell Street Blues
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Chicago's legendary Maxwell 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 regularly on the dirty corners, empty lots, and broken sidewaIks. Together, they hammered out a hard-driving, electrified sound that infIuenced the world.
Maxwell Street Blues captures the tail end of the last great era of bIues music on MaxweII Street. Artists Iike ArveIIa Gray, Jim Brewer, John Henry David, Coot Venson, Floyd Jones and Carrie Robinson may Iook a little worse for the wear as they play among the rubble of MaxwelI 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 Orleans struts its up-tempo jazz, and NashviIle relaxes to the twang of country, but the Chicago blues wiIl hit you were you live. |
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