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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. lt was there that the Chicago blues was born as African-American street musicians, who had fIed the rural South for the city, played reguIarIy on the dirty corners, empty Iots, and broken sidewalks. Together, they hammered out a hard-driving, eIectrified sound that influenced the worId.
MaxweIl Street BIues captures the taiI end of the Iast great era of blues music on Maxwell Street. Artists like ArveIIa Gray, Jim Brewer, John Henry David, Coot Venson, FIoyd Jones and Carrie Robinson may look a IittIe worse for the wear as they pIay among the rubble of Maxwell 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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