[Harp-L] blues documentary (little harp content)

[Randy Singer <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.pbs.org/theblues/aboutfilms/figgis.html

Director Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code)  
joins musicians such as Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Tom  
Jones, performing and talking about the music of the early sixties  
British invasion that reintroduced the blues sound to America.

During the 1960s, the UK was the location for a vibrant social  
revolution. London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle  
all had their own music scenes. Musicians from Belfast and Glasgow  
moved to London to be part of the club scene there.

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the  
fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by  
the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the most part, entirely  
ignored by the good citizens of the US. It was new in the sense that  
certain key musicians took the blues and molded it in an entirely  
personal way to fit the new awareness of the UK in the sixties.  
Importantly, for the most part they continued to pay homage to the  
originators of the music and to make a huge global audience aware of  
the likes of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King,  
etc.