Chapter 05 of 5
The Blues Comes Home
How British bands sold the blues back to America, and what they owed.
- The Platform
Dartford, 1961
In 1961 Keith Richards spotted an old schoolmate, Mick Jagger, at Dartford railway station in Kent.
- The Records
An armful of Chess
Jagger was carrying records by Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters, mail-ordered from Chess in Chicago. They started talking.
- The Band
The Rolling Stones
Soon they formed a band. Brian Jones named it after Muddy Waters' song "Rollin' Stone".
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🎸 How the Blues Built Rock
- 01Born in the DeltaHow work songs, field hollers and a few bent notes became the blues.
- 02The Blues QueensThe women who made the first blues records, and sold them by the hundred thousand.
- 03The Crossroads LegendRobert Johnson: 29 songs, a mysterious death and a deal with the devil.
- 04Going Electric in ChicagoThe Great Migration, Muddy Waters and the record label that made the blues loud.
- 05The Blues Comes HomeHow British bands sold the blues back to America, and what they owed.