National Downhome Blues Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, 1985
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@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
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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Georgia Public Television
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards CollectionRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Musicians
- African Americans
- Atlanta
- Blues (Music)
- Blues Festivals
- Bryant, Precious
- Cephas, John
- Georgia
- Guitarists
- Harmonica Players
- Hemphill, Jessie Mae
- Homesick James, 1910 2006
- Jackson, John, 1924 2002
- Kirkland, Eddie, 1923 2011
- Lockwood
- Macon, Albert, 1920
- Pianists
- Pitchford, Lonnie
- Pryor, Snooky, 1921 2006
- Robert Jr., 1915 2006
- Ross, Dr. (Isaiah), 1925 1993
- Singing
- Songs
- Sunnyland Slim, 1907 1995
- Taj Mahal (Musician)
- Terry, Sonny
- Thomas, Robert, 1929
- Thomas, Son, 1926 1993
- Townsend, Henry
- Wiggins, Phil