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Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of "blue notes." It emerged in Black communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.

Friday Nite Videos | February 18, 2022

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Jordan Klepper Takes on Canadian Truckers. When the Levee Breaks | Playing for Change. Louisiana Senate Candidate Burns Confederate Flag. How Pandemics End. Attica - Largest Prison Uprising in US History.

When the Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing for Change

“When The Levee Breaks” is an emotionally-charged classic by Led Zeppelin. The song is a rework of the 1929 original release by Kansas Joe Mccoy and Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; the most destructive river flooding in U.S. history.

Friday Nite Videos | February 4, 2022

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Queen Bee | Taj Mahal, Ben Harper, Rosanne Cash. Love & The Constitution. What It's Like To Be Intersex. The Way to Freedom: Selma and the Making of a Movement. Why This Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Matters.

Queen Bee | Taj Mahal, Ben Harper, Rosanne Cash

Get “rocked to your soul” with the “sweet” sounds of the blues classic, “Queen Bee,” by legendary musician, Taj Mahal. This Song Around The World version 20 musicians from six countries.

Friday Nite Videos | June 25, 2021

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Sha’Carri Richardson Wins Gold & Carl Nassib Becomes First Openly Gay NFL Player. The Music’s Back in This Region. A Crime On The Bayou. Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way. How Quantum Mechanics Helps Birds Find Their Way.

Friday Nite Videos | March 12, 2021

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Closing In? Trump Caught on Tape Calling January 6 'Important Date'. Higher Ground 2020. W. Kamau Bell Talks Covid With Black Health Care Workers. Meet the Women Empowering QAnon. Why New Covid Variants Are Spreading Faster.

Higher Ground 2020 (Stevie Wonder) | Playing for Change

New version, with r&b vocalist Aloe Blacc, world-renowned percussionist Sheila E., blues vocalist Shemekia Copeland,  soul folk duo The War and Treaty, banjo greats Bela Fleck and Silkroad's Rhiannon Giddens, and pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph.

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