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As a genre, blues music was developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by rural black musicians. They shaped it with brilliant inspiration from disparate elements of black song. By the early 1920s, recorded urban performers solidified the standard 12 bar structure that has identified most blues. During that period there were musicians who had grown up with the blues, but whose styles were more fluid and improvisational. They played with a personal adaptation of their regional style, shaping the blues and related material to their own needs and those of their audiences. The 'Legends of Country Blues' DVDs are a celebration of the musical styles of these people (and those who have followed), and the rare footage presented here is a treasure and a joy - depicting some of the greatest musicians who ever lived...