A classic setting of Arthur Crudup singing and playing 'Born In To The Blues' as he looks out from the porch on the farm land beyond. It might be a well worn image of the Delta bluesman but it's never more convincing when you hear his song. What at first sounds like the frail voice of old age turns into the blues cry of a lifetime of experience. A remarkeable piece of film (Directed by David Deutsch) of the man towards the end of his life.
This man wrote the song Elvis Presley made into his first big hit, "That's All Right My Mamma".
You can hear similar lines in this very song. A haunting cry of returning to his homeland Mississippi. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup born 1905, died in 1974. A very important figure in blues and major influence to the beginnings of rock and roll.
