A Black History Month Special Program: "Truckin' My Blues Away"
From: Prime Time Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
Length: 54:23
This music-rich hour-long special introduces listeners to the stories and sounds of four older Southern bluesmen—and to the efforts of Tim Duffy, founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, to help lift these musicians from poverty and obscurity. The musicians cover a wide swath of the South: Boo Hanks from Virgilina, Va.; Captain Luke from Winston-Salem, N.C.; Eddie Tigner from Atlanta; and Little Freddie King from New Orleans.
In their own words and performances, these men bring us the story of a music, an era and a culture that are uniquely American. The program is co-produced and co-written by Richard Ziglar and Barry Yeoman, who traveled around the South collecting interviews and field recordings of the musicians. Yeoman, who co-produced our Gracie Award-winning program "Picking Up the Pieces," narrates.
AARP's Web site will feature a multimedia package—complete with videos, an audio slideshow, and links for listeners who want to purchase CDs—at http://www.aarp.org/radio.
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This music-rich hour-long special introduces listeners to the stories and sounds of four older Southern bluesmen—and to the efforts of Tim Duffy, founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, to help lift these musicians from poverty and obscurity. The musicians cover a wide swath of the South: Boo Hanks from Virgilina, Va.; Captain Luke from Winston-Salem, N.C.; Eddie Tigner from Atlanta; and Little Freddie King from New Orleans.
In their own words and performances, these men bring us the story of a music, an era and a culture that are uniquely American. The program is co-produced and co-written by Richard Ziglar and Barry Yeoman, who traveled around the South collecting interviews and field recordings of the musicians. Yeoman, who co-produced our Gracie Award-winning program "Picking Up the Pieces," narrates.
AARP's Web site will feature a multimedia package—complete with videos, an audio slideshow, and links for listeners who want to purchase CDs—at http://www.aarp.org/radio.
Additional Credits
"Truckin' My Blues Away" was written and produced by Barry Yeoman and Richard Ziglar. Janelle Haskell of AARP Radio is the executive producer. Engineers are Ben Pizzuto of AARP Radio and Dave Tilley of Bogue Sound Studios in Durham, North Carolina, where the narration was recorded.
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Jamie Dell'Apa
Posted on January 01, 2011 at 10:35 AM | Permalink
Excellent documentary
These guys consistently turn out great documentaries on topics that only regional insiders know about. They capture Americana culture that is dying for exposure and merits the highest artistic accolades yet somehow never makes it outside of neighborhood adulation. Isn't that the highest form of documentary?