Italic Title: | force |
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey | |
Type: | Box set |
Artist: | various artists |
Cover: | Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues - A Musical Journey.jpg |
Released: | October 7, 2003 |
Recorded: | August 10, 1920 – April 9, 2003 |
Genre: | Blues |
Length: | 6:10:47 |
Label: | Hip-O Records, Sony |
Producer: | Various, Mark Abramson |
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues.[1] The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.
In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes.[2] [3] The previous year it was number 2 on the Billboards Top Blues Albums chart.[4]
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is also the title of a 2003 companion book to the series. Writers/editors include Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren and Christopher John Farley.[5]