Maxwell Street Blues, Ode To A Dead Community

Maxwell Street Blues is a 2001 documentary that chronicles the since failed struggle to save Chicago's Maxwell Street community, the birthplace of the electric blues. The film contains rare archival footage of Maxwell Street in the 1940s, and documents some of the last blues performances in this historic community.
This is another great film from Archive.org. archive.org/det...
Producer: Robert Wyrod
Camera & Editing: Robert Wyrod
Additional Camera: James Fraher
Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
There is also another silent b&w clip from 1978 that you can watch on the Archive site. archive.org/det...
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