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BLACK BLIND GOSPEL SINGER - IF I COULD HEAR MY MOTHER PRAY AGAIN

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Black blind guitarist on stage. Tunes up. His cane rests in between his legs.

Group of young white well dressed men watch traveling blues street musicians. Multiple shots. No audio.

Sign juts out from building for Alice's PlayHouse -shots of downtown urban center street

No audio. Black blind piano player (?) performs in a restaurant with booths or bar? CUs '60's audience of young adults, White, enjoying a performance

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NICE PHILADELPHIA STREET SCENES. BLIND MAN WITH GUIDE DOG & TIP JAR. BEGS ON STREET. NEWSSTAND.
CU READING TERMINAL. URBAN STREET SCENES. BUSTLING CITY. DISCOUNT STORES, MARQUEES, STORE SIGNS, SUBWAY

NEWSSTAND. AERIALS OF PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS DISTRICT

RALPH WILLIS & WASHBOARD PETE - IT WAS A DREAM (WILLIS WAS A SOUTH CAROLINA BLUESMAN ALA BLIND BOY FULLER. TRAVELING BLUES STREET MUSICIAN, HOKUM BLUES)

MOS SHOTS OF URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD PHILADELPHIA.
CAMERA FOLLOWS BLIND BLACK STREET SINGERS AS THEY SLOWLY WALK DOWN STREET. CU TIP JAR. ACCORDION BLIND MAN WITH CANE

BLIND RAGTIME STRIDE PIANO PLAYER PERFORMS RAGGY PIANO ON GOSPEL SONG - SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT GOOD SHOTS OF CLASSIC BLACK HONKY-TONK STYLE

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street performance by authentic blues street singers Wilis and Washboard Pete (song by sonny terry and brownie mcghee)

INTERVIEW WITH PIEDMONT BLUES GUITARIST - SINGER RALPH WILLIS AND WASHBOARD PETE .
NORTH CAROLINA BLUES SINGER MENTIONS BLIND BOY FULLER & ROBERT JOHNSON. DISCUSS LEARNING GUITAR BLUES OFF OF SON HOUSE RECORDS PRE-WAR BLUES THESE GUYS KNEW & WERE CONTEMPOARYS OF ROBERT JOHNSON DISCUSS THEIR MUSIC & LIFE AS TRAVELING BLUES PERFORMERS TALK ABOUT LEARNING DIRECTLY FROM PRE-WAR DELTA BLUES LEGENDS SON HOUSE & ROBERT JOHNSON WILLIS TALKS ABOUT PALLING AROUND WITH ROBERT JOHNSON - PERHPAPS THE FIRST FILMED INTERVIEW WHERE A CONTEMPORAY OF ROBERT JOHNSON SHARES A DIRECT MEMORY OF JOHNSON

BLIND FEMALE BLACK GOSPEL SINGER ALA WASHINGTON PHILLIPS. ANCIENT 19TH CENTURY STYLE GOSPEL SONGS WOMAN STRUMS UKELELE ON STREET SINGS MAUDELIN SINGS MAUDLIN BALLAD ON STREET

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