Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey Vol 6, Red, White & Blue- Grade A

Director Mike Figgis
Producer Martin Scorsese
Topic The Blues -- British Impact

sez says --this is the best in the series (so far) It includes people like Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Tom Jones who perform and talk about how American Blues came to England, the impact it had there and how it morphed and than returned to the USA as part of the wave of British blues music that hit the United States in the '60s. These are mostly talking head interviews--interspersed with some fine music. It gave a strong sense of time and place and personality. John Mayall, Steve Winwood. Georgie Fame, Albert Lee,  Mick Fleetwood, Humphrey Lyttleton, Lonnie Donnegan, Chris Farlowe,  and John Porter, plus some very special foot age of performances by Cream, the Mick Jagger / The Rolling Stones and more.  The point that is made, is that Black Blues Music was introduced to  American White Audiences via English performers.  Had they not 'discovered the blues' we Americans might have continued to ignore it. (Grade A)