Paul, it's great that these historic recordings were made and preserved. It's important to learn and observe the history of what has become so much of America's musical landscape (especially blues, jazz, gospel, afro-cuban, etc.). I'm guessing there is a pretty good catalog of these works in the Library of Congress.

Below is a clip I just keep going back to. Not blues, per se, but interesting nonetheless. The entire clip is very interesting and entertaining but if you can't listen to the entire clip (you really should, for context), at least listen to his magnificent solo starting at about 6:10.

chas

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BTW, try to listen with headphones or good monitors, and also, what am I doing wrong that this clip doesn't show up in this post as a composite video? If you know what's wrong, please fix it. Thanks.