GHOSTS OF THE BLUES

...haunting images of the Deep South. If anyone ever wants to know how, why or where the blues emerged, look no further. Hopefully this can explain... And you have to love Blind Willie Johnson's haunting score. WARNING: Some scary images of brutality may not be suitable for younger kids.

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Music

Tags:

• blues
• blind
• willie
• johnson
• the
• deep
• south
• racism
• oppression
• slideshow
• plantations
• creepy
• moody
• kkk
• lynching
• dark
• was
• night
• robert
• crossroads

[funkbassology]

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

[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.

[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

[pos6666666]

@3073020 Damn right

[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...

[gconneely92]

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

[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.

[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 :(