W.C. Handy - Father of the Blues

Sandra Ford, Curator of the W.C. Handy Home & Museum in Florence, AL, explains how W.C. Handy became known as "The Father of the Blues." To learn more about Handy and other creative talents featured in the Year of Alabama Arts, visit 800alabama.com/yoa

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[kickingmule]

Wrong, WC Handy, was a composer, a good listener and documetalist of the Blues in the South.

I reward him cause he understood, what was goin' on in the South and the very first time a Blues was heard and put into notes, was at a railwaystation in 1898, where WC Handy picked up the very first "notes" of the Blues from a black sitting down "hollerin'" !

I'm very glad he is celebrated, but most of those, he got insperition of are not. They are forgotten.

Keep the Blues alive !

Peace.

Urban

[Maxegirl1313]

Really?! that means you're related to my best friend!

[MahaLakshmi Everlasting]

He is my ancestor.

[Acefire37]

i just so happen to be related to wc handy

[billybeeks]

Steve are you familiar with WKCR-FM 89.9 Columbia Uni. ? It started about 60 something years ago for intellectual music & talk. Its got a commercial free mixed bag of all great musics...also on Itunes

[johnrunion]

in the clip it even states he was not the first, but rather to first to be published.

[pexe1994]

noo

the God of blues is called ROBERT JOHNSON

[Mslaydi]

 That's a matter of opinion birk.

[Zefren Anderson]

I disagree watch my video of his Orchestra from 1917, He created a niche in amercan pop music for the blues.

[birkof0102]

W.C. Handy Sucks!!!

The real and the Father Foundation BLues is Charley Patton, Handy was a Great Man Composer and related about Delta buy His Voice and Arreglem's are kind for jazz crhomatic scale, his not respect the pentatonic scale from Real afroamerican people composer, his is Not a Father the blues please!!!

His a Composer, Documentalist and Musician from Delta, But His Music no Delimited the real Blues adn country blues froms 20's 30´s and more.

[Stephen Cook]

His house is like right down the road from me! haha

[tmintyfresh]

i have to do a project on him he's interesting