The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Sugar Blue

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Sugar Blue

6/10/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2018.116

Blues musician Sugar Blue (? - ) Blue was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/10/2018, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 58m 55s

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Sugar Blue

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Blues musician Sugar Blue was born on December 16, 1949 in New York City to Maisey Savage and Jimmy Jones. Blue was given his first harmonica as a child and taught himself to play by listening to the music of Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan. He attended Herron High School, but left without receiving his diploma. By the age of eighteen, Blue was performing on the streets of New York and sitting in on sessions with blues and jazz legends like Muddy Waters, Sun Ra, Roosevelt Sykes and Brownie McGhee.In...