Fruteland Jackson returned to Ben Franklin this Feb to teach his Blues 101 course to our 8th graders. As always, he was phenomenal. He chronicled how the blues was born from field hollers which developed the throat, work songs which developed the beat, and spirituals which gave it feeling. He went on to explain how the blues was born out of the sharecropping south and was transcribed by WC Handy and rose to world-wide acclaim. Like many bluesmen, Fruteland was born in the Mississippi Delta, and migrated north with his family to Chicago, and his own personal account of the Great Migration was especially interesting. Be sure to come to the Blues Project concert finale at VHS on Saturday, March 14th at 7pm to see him perform Big Bill Broonzy's "Key to the Highway."
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