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Beyond JFK: A Question of Conspiracy Chasing the Dream: A Bull Riding Adventure Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film
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A brief look at four famous Texas bluesmen, Texas Blues Guitar features performances by Albert Collins, Freddie King, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Mance Lipscomb. Comprised wholly of performance footage, the documentary provides examples of four very different styles of playing, while doubling as a time line spanning over 30 years of music history. The video opens with four pieces of the Chicago-esque bombast of Albert Collins, captured at Austin City Limits in 1991. Next up is the gritty John Lee Hooker-style bump and grind of Freddie King (1972), where one can almost imagine ZZ Top and George Thorogood in the audience taking notes. But the highlight of the video is easily the 1960 performance by seminal Houston bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins. The premiere acoustic bluesman and one of the fathers of Texas' own flavor of blues, Hopkins strums, mumbles and taps his foot through the grainy black and white footage, salvaged from some television station archive. As for the 1968 performance of Mance Lipscomb, well, he's playing in someone's living room from the looks of it. Still, he gives a stellar performance despite the lack of an audience. A must-see for blues aficionados, Texas Blues Guitar is a bit like a time capsule unearthed from behind the walls of contemporary rock and roll.
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