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Give my poor heart ease: Mississippi Delta bluesmen

Title: Give my poor heart ease: Mississippi Delta bluesmen [motion picture] / William Ferris.
Publication: Memphis, TN : Center for Southern Folklore, 1975.

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1 film reel (20 min.) : sd. col.; 16 mm.

Summary

Personal accounts of the blues experience include recollections and performances by B. B. King, inmates at Parchman Prison, musicians in a Leland juke joint, a barber from Clarksdale and a salesman in a Beale Street clothing store. All describe the musical vision that developed the Delta blues tradition.

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Producer, director, William Ferris.

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Give my poor heart ease: Mississippi Delta bluesmen [motion picture] / William Ferris.

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Memphis, TN : Center for Southern Folklore, 1975.

Credits

Producer, director, William Ferris.

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Ferris, William.

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M16 2059 G

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