Much of the extremely rare performance footage presented in this video has never before been publicly seen and documents the diversity of a music which was a personal as a fingerprint yet as universal as the blues itself. John Jackson, Pink Anderson, Rev. Gary Davis and the charismatic Josh White manifest different aspects of the rich Piedmont ragtime/blues tradition.

In Memphis, echoes of the Mississippi Delta could be heard in the music of Furry Lewis, while the delightfully eccentric Jesse Fuller and the introspective Robert Pete Williams embody country blues which defies regional identity.

Running time 60 minutes

Furry Lewis: Judge Boushe Blues

                         Furry’s Blues

                          See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

                          John Henry

John Jackson: That will Never Happen No More

                            Rag in C

Josh White: You Know Baby What I Want

                        Number 12 Train

                         Nobody Know You When You’re Down and Out

Robert Pete Willliams: Dear Old Mother of Mine

Ethel & George McCoy: Black Mary

Pink Anderson: She Knows How to Stretch It

                              Ain’t Nobody Home but Me

                              Crow Jane

                               You Don’t Know What the Lord Told Me

Rev. Gary Davis: Oh Glory How Happy I Am

Jesse Fuller: Running Wild

                         The Woman I Had She Left Me