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Learn how the ordinary people of America were given the opportunity to make records for the first time.

Jack White and T Bone Burnett record top artists as they recreate America’s musical past.

Bill Williamson recalls the 1920’s Coal Miners strike in Logan, West Virginia

Travel to rural America as Charley Patton and Elder Burch record early Delta blues.

Mississippi John Hurt

Musician Charlie Musselwhite remembers Memphis in the past