BLUESLAND - A PORTRAIT IN AMERICAN MUSIC

The blues is a celebration, a joyful, complex and compelling artform built on self-expression and entertainment.
Bluesland, A Portrait in American Music explores the blues, with all its poetic irony and sly humor, its eroticism, and timeless power. A uniquely creative and highly visual look at American blues, Bluesland travels the expansive landscape of the music, tracing its roots from the beginning of the 20th century through the Mississippi Delta to Lousiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago.
With brilliant footage, both rare and contemporary, Bluesland explains and elucidates the riches of this fabulous artform.

From a clear historical point of view, Bluesland comprehensively traces blues' many tributaries as the music flows into the sophisticated jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, the rhythm and blues of Louis Jordan and Dinah Washington and the rock and roll of Chuck Berry.

Bluesland is a most moving, authentic and illustrative overview of the blues, a must for all music lovers.

Tracklist:

• Just want To Make Love To You, Rolling Stones
  
• (I'm Your) Hoochhie Coochie Man, Muddy Waters
  
• Cool Blues, Charlie Parker
  
• Crazy Blues, Mamie Smith
  
• Death Letter Blues, Son House
  
• Dust My Blues, Elmore James
  
• Got My Mojo Working, Muddy Waters and Friends
  
• I Aint Superstitious, Howlin' Wolf
  
• It's My Own Fault, John lee Hooker
  
• Pick A Bale Of Cotton, Leadbelly
  
• St Louis Blues, Bessie Smith
  
• Sweet Little Angel, B.B. King
  
• Sweet Little Sixteen, Chuck Berry
  
• That's All Right, Elvis Presley
  
• West End Blues, Louie Armstrong
  
• When Did You Leave Heaven, Big Bill Broonzy