Anthony Proveaux
The Great Blues Road Trip
In 1930, pioneering African American Mississippi Delta Blues musicians, Charley Patton, Son House, Willie Brown, Louise Johnson, and driver Wheeler Ford, travelled up to Grafton Wisconsin to record “race-records” for the Paramount Label. The commercial blues records they made at Paramount greatly influenced the course of blues and popular music, and the spirited and colorful trip itself has become a story of legend….. Events and details from the now famous road-trip were later recalled by Son House, who was on the trip, in various interviews some years later. This podcast is a fictionalized ve
Anthony Proveaux
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