ocr: The Blue Highway. - - TM winds past the plantation barrelhouses of the Mississippi Delta to the south-side clubs and tenements of postwar Chicago. While it's a somber: trip, humbling, even_distressing, it's also enchanting and joyful and reassuring in its success. The history of the blues is more: than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon: It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities. We owe the blues to those who bore. the pain of enslayement behind ...
