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The history of black music is the history of American music. AEWorks Blues Alley Podcast takes you on a remarkable odyssey of struggle, intrigue, business, crime, & music, all spanning more than a century. But, Blues Alley isn’t your typical blues documentary. Our goal is to tell the stories of blues music, but also to reach into the lives of the people who created it. Explore the places they lived, and the times that inspired the first truly authentic form of American music. Our first series W.C. Handy, the Founding Father of American Music, weaves the tale of the man who first took a rustic music from the Mississippi delta, turned it into an international phenomenon, and made blues music sing for everyone, everywhere. You’ll be amazed.
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Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Broadway bound, Handy faced a whole new set of problems. We’ll tell you the rest of his amazing story on this episode of AEWorks Blues Alley Podcast.
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BONUS EXTRAS
SAINT LOUIS BLUES
LISTEN TO - “Saint Louis Blues”
The original piano piece Composed and Arranged by W.C. Handy
Performed by Jim Holthouser
https://open.spotify.com/track/6kYXxg36AF10npniBs84fp?si=mnb0PM_ITX64cuxx64-vnw
LISTEN TO – The Victor Military Band’s rendition of “St Louis Blues”
https://youtu.be/ZGqBmlZR3dc
WATCH Bessie Smith sing “St Louis Blues” from the movie “St Louis Blues”
https://youtu.be/5Bo3f_9hLkQ
WATCH W.C. Handy perform “St Louis Blues” Live on Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town TV show in 1949 https://youtu.be/EkOcO5HXbk8
BEALE STREET BLUES
LISTEN TO - “Beale Street Blues”
The original piano piece Composed and Arranged by W.C. Handy
Performed by Jim Holthouser
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ynNOln1sjJynwSx8O1Rv2?si=2defxLCzRRGBsl9CyjazTw
LISTEN TO Louis Armstrong’s version of “Beale Street Blues”
https://youtu.be/MKnAub5-LNE
LISTEN TO Marion Harris The Jazz Vampire’s recording of “Beale Street Blues”
https://youtu.be/tf9A0vAUTE0
LISTEN TO Nat King Cole’s recording of “Beale Street Blues”
https://youtu.be/Zg5i6OvOJWY
WATCH Bessie Smith’s version of Eddie Green’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”
https://youtu.be/lfKqZWyLRqU
Follow Jim Holthouser on Spotify
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