The story of The Blues traces the four main traditions of blues music: Form Blues, Blues, Urban Blues and Blues Electric. The blues has evolved and diversified, and filtered into a surprising variety of styles in contemporary music. In the blues the history of music was released. A look at the roots, origins and the subsequent influence of style the film explores the blues significant contribution to the development of jazz, rock and country and western music. Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Alexander Texas, and many more artists are featured through the film.

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

Blues Story presents an impressionistic history of one of the most lasting art forms America has eve...

Geri Ashur’s Me & Stella traces the life of blues musician, folk singer, and composer Elizabeth Cott...

Live, intimate, and raw, Sessions For Robert J is the essential audio/video companion to Eric Clapto...

Live concert recording of B.B. King playing with many guests, including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vau...

Long Island (aka the Big Fish) was home to a blues scene that was one of the most incredible and fan...

A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for...

Over a series of 5 nights in November 2007, Jeff Beck performed, along with special guests, at Ronni...

There are 4 juke joints left in the United States. On May 4, 2013, the last one in Alabama was raide...

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate...

The star-studded special celebrates the trailblazing music series' 40th anniversary. With guest host...

Robert Plant formed his current band The Sensational Space Shifters in 2012 and has been recording a...

Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, THE BLUES UNDER THE SKIN dramatizes the tumultuou...

Blues legend Eddie Taylor struggles against financial hardship and music industry exploitation to ma...

It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances ...

Shot after hours at Newport Folk in 1966 by American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, this recording fe...

From America's deep South, to Detroit and New York this captivating and enlightening documentary spe...

Robert Johnson was one of the most influential blues guitarists ever. Even before his early death, f...

In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the ...

A portrait of Keith Richards that takes us on a journey to discover the genesis of his sound as a so...