LENGTH: 2 hours
A two-part, two-hour documentary. Pair together or broadcast independently as one-hour specials.
COST: FREE
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 A documentary series featuring musicians in New Orleans and South Louisiana who continue to perform both traditional blues and more commercial rhythm-and-blues. |
| Join host Richard Ziglar for a trip into the hidden world of Louisiana blues.
 Louisiana’s Interstate 10 corridor between New Orleans and Lafayette has been called the “most musical 125 miles on Earth.” It is famously the birthplace of jazz, zydeco, and Cajun music, and has its own brand of funk and R&B. But New Orleans and South Louisiana also have a strong blues tradition, which exists below the radar yet provides the DNA for so much American music.
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 The first part, also called “Still Singing the Blues,” burrows into the lives of three outstanding older performers: Carol Fran of Lafayette, Harvey Knox of Baton Rouge, and Little Freddie King of New Orleans.
Part 2, “Crescent City Blues,” visits New Orleans’ corner blues joints–neighborhood bars far from the French Quarter that keep the music alive.
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