Chicago Style Blues featuring Lurrie Bell son of Blues Legend Carey Bell from the Muddy Waters Band.
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Born in 1958, the son of famed blues harmonica player Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell picked up his father’s guitar at age of five and.
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Studs interviews blues singers Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton about the blues. They discuss the blues festival in Chicago for which they are all in town for and name other musicians who will be performing. Sunnyland Slim talks about being on the road and the hard times. Thornton describes the blues as music made from life experiences.
After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years and on the eve of a solo show at the Manetti Shrem Museum Mike Henderson reflects on shining shoes as a young man in Missouri, seeing his soul in Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters," believing he had lost decades' worth of paintings in a fire, and securing his place in one of the greatest university art departments ever assembled.