American Epic
Season 1 • Episode 2: Blood and Soil • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: Blood and Soil
May 23, 2017 • 57 min
Travel to the rural South as Elder Burch, Charley Patton and others record early Delta blues, gospel and protest songs. The Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi River communities, leading to northern migration and Chicago Blues by Howlin' Wolf.
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