GHOSTS OF THE BLUES

[mookerhooker]

il blues nasce dalla sofferenza di un popolo..grazie per questo video !

[fngrpkn06]

Touching moving and honest!

[bpepsiliscious]

Wow! Those images has left me speechless. Evansville,Indiana should be ashamed. If u`ve ever been there,u will kno what I mean,...I think they are trying and is acomplishing on erasing their race and past. Its sick to see. I long to see a white couple and white kids!! Smh

[npmoura]

Algumas dessas fotos não são de escravos. Existem várias fotos de Robert Johnson, guitarrista e um dos mestres do blues, morto por envenenamento (ninguém sabe o culpado) em 1929 com a idade de 29 anos.

Some of these photos are not of slaves. There are some there are of Robert Johnson, guitar player and of blues masters, died by poisoning (nobody knows by who) in 1929 at age of 27yo.

[The2044323]

OMG !!! toda mi vida lei sobre la esclavitud, pasando por "roots" de Alex Haley... pero estas imagenes son brutales... me gusta el blues, y ahora entiendo el sentir de su gente...

[salih7779311]

WOW !!!!

[donaldleejr]

I dig this !!! check out my video-- donald lee slave blues new land blues

thanks for posting

[3073020]

The Blues is for all people past and present.

[gconneely92]

@3073020 Exactly, never get it when people say "i am 12 and I love this song"

[pos6666666]

@3073020 Damn right

[swamplight79]

Good tune.Blues is more of an emotional state than the commercialized 12 bar thing that they took from chicago and memphis and ran with.The blues can pop up anywhere,in any genre can't it?Mississippi,Louisianna,and Texas is where its at and has been through the years in my opinion.I know he's not a true "blues" singer,but some of you guys should check out the newer Dax Riggs and see if you hear the blues in it.I do.Maybe the Heartbreak Hotel cover for starters.

[OBJ2K9]

I listen to hip hop and metal but I have a new found love for this!

[Sistarovat]

Yep, those were the good ole days. 1900-1960, when all black people had to work for a living just like white folks, when black children went to black schools and white children went to white schools, when white girls didn't listen to jungle bunny music and black people acted with some dignity and self-respect. Oh, for the good ole days.

[AnarkyBorat]

@Sistarovat Dear christ please be a troll.

[Witatsois]

No words. Feel the music.

[MissGarland18]

I read a poem in an old history book at school once and it goes-Dark was the night, cold was the ground, nothing more chilling than the sound of a blood thirsty hound, the tromping of many boots, the sound heard all around, the sound of an innocent man falling to the ground. In the morning, strung from a branch, feet swaying and hanging down...This is a good video, haunting sounds of the past, the music alone is enough to give you chills...Well done =)

[nathanharnish]

@MissGarland18 --- wow just makes you wish you could go back and try to prevent it. its so sad but true. i may be white but i do not take respect in what happend back then, tragic things happend that the world will never ever forget. the sights and sounds will haunt to the end of days :(

[HowlinJay]

Upon first moving into the house that I live in now I discovered a flyer left by one of the previous residents. It was a recruitment letter for the KKK (I'm not joking, I promise). Even in North Eastern Texas I naively thought that the organization had largely died out. I was mistaken. As a 23 year old white boy who is obsessed with the blues, and my very best friend is an African American, I have to say that this was more than a little unsettling. Haunting even. Disgusting.

[scelgoquesto]

che tristezza..

[revnasteewaters57]

The blues exsplain the whole American exsperiance. Most black people continue to live the blues unto this day

[iphonesurgeon]

please who is this artist and wgat other blues singers are like this its awesome music

[ZeMetalFREAK]

2:16 WTF?! this makes me sick.... i feel ashamed to be caucasian... fuck

[TRfetus]

@ZeMetalFREAK There's no reason for you to be ashamed of being white.

[MississippiDann]

T H I S  I S T H E B L U E S

five stars

[thelefthandedfreak]

this video makes me sad

[QBisbest]

@SlashLesPaulGoldtop *scratches head* WTF!

[frumplen]

reminds me of when i lived in the liousiana bayou

[jimjam69]

God Bless you for showi this to a white guy like me .I never seen a black person til i was 16.When i seen this video my heart went out to them.I have seen PURE HATE in the kkk.This video is a keeper....again ty so much.

[misterfrigginYUCK]

Senator Robert Byrd was prolly under one of those sheets. I feel for those who were brought up in that misery, but thats in the PAST. My grandfather and his 7 brothers and sisters grew up in the late teens/early 20's and picked cotton right along side the folks "displayed" in this video. They were sharecroppers. My great great grandfather was an Irish immigrant. He and his wife came here and were subjected to the SAME garbage.

[pos6666666]

awsome video

[ivanluisgomes]

excellent video, one of the bests, in my opinion.Thank you for it!

Regards from Brazil!

[frumplen]

1:21

[jcdevelopment]

Such tragedy came from that era, but soo much great music begot it!! I love the delta!

[subterranean47]

as a side note in the mid 20th century men and women would be paid around 1-3 dollars for every hundred pounds of cotton picked so just imagine picking a hundred pounds of sharp light weight cotton balls and then imagine not gettin' paid a damned thing for it

[funkbassology]

damn...this music touches the soul like no other

[FloormanofAlabama]

you better beilve it and belive the stories as they are real, dont go down there, what does a man gainth if he gains the world but looses his soul

[MichaelLynch90]

youre an idiot.

[Huddiethegreat]

one of the most haunting songs ever.

[mcul2112]

I'm glad this didn't pull punches.

I love blues. Seeing where they come from makes me feel differently about them.

People are crazy.

[truevoyuer]

remember our dark history??? WTF!?! I am living in it everyday right now in 2009!

[twinkyiscool]

where are you from?

[thegarbeen]

@truevoyuer Your living the sort of life thats going on in these pictures everyday? As you sit typing these words on the internet?

[deafy321]

1:51 idiots look so happy burning a black... Stupid smiling faces

[djguy100]

Jesus 1:51 is pretty bad....thats some dude being burned!

[SonicYouth808]

1:54 ?

[stacyblue1980]

1:54 looks to me like a burning body. (SonicYouth808)

[jpxpert]

Excellent video.

[JerseyGuy28]

Some of these photos are very haunting, but it's important for us to remember this dark side of our nation's history.

In that regard, this video is quite effective.

[fairalways]

Beyond my pitiful words...and tears...

[deltablues4761]

Fantastic, well done.