Alan Lomax found & recorded Jelly Roll Morton in Washington D.C. in 1938, convincing him to play his old brothel songs from Storyville, New Orleans, which were so raunchy that some were not released by the Library of Congress until 67 years later in 2005.

“Well here it is the late 1970s going on 1985, you know so much of the music we hear today is pre-programmed electronic disco we never get to hear bluesmen practicing their craft anymore” – Dan Aykroyd’s Blues Brothers Introduction, opening for Steve Martin, September 9, 1978

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