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National Downhome Blues Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, 1985

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Georgia Folklore Society

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National Downhome Blues Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Performers include: Doctor Ross, Sunnyland Slim, Jessie Mae Hemphill, John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Robert Junior Lockwood, Albert Macon and Robert Thomas, Taj Mahal, Son Thomas, Henry Townsend, Lonnie Pitchford, Homesick James and Snooky Pryor, Eddie Kirkland, Precious Bryant, Thomas Burt, Sonny Terry, and John Jackson. Also includes brief interviews with some of the musicians. They discuss growing up with music and learning blues.
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Video
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Georgia Public Television
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Musicians
  2. African Americans
  3. Atlanta
  4. Blues (Music)
  5. Blues Festivals
  6. Bryant, Precious
  7. Cephas, John
  8. Georgia
  9. Guitarists
  10. Harmonica Players
  11. Hemphill, Jessie Mae
  12. Homesick James, 1910 2006
  13. Jackson, John, 1924 2002
  14. Kirkland, Eddie, 1923 2011
  15. Lockwood
  16. Macon, Albert, 1920
  17. Pianists
  18. Pitchford, Lonnie
  19. Pryor, Snooky, 1921 2006
  20. Robert Jr., 1915 2006
  21. Ross, Dr. (Isaiah), 1925 1993
  22. Singing
  23. Songs
  24. Sunnyland Slim, 1907 1995
  25. Taj Mahal (Musician)
  26. Terry, Sonny
  27. Thomas, Robert, 1929
  28. Thomas, Son, 1926 1993
  29. Townsend, Henry
  30. Wiggins, Phil

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