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1 00:00:02,961 --> 00:00:05,191 ♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪ 2 00:00:05,194 --> 00:00:08,124 The President: Like so many of the men and women who sang them, 3 00:00:08,127 --> 00:00:12,257 the blues refused to be limited by the circumstances 4 00:00:12,261 --> 00:00:14,431 of their birth. 5 00:00:14,428 --> 00:00:19,058 The music migrated north from Mississippi Delta to Memphis 6 00:00:19,061 --> 00:00:21,991 to my hometown of Chicago. 7 00:00:21,994 --> 00:00:28,124 It helped lay the foundation for Rock & Roll, R&B and Hip-Hop. 8 00:00:28,127 --> 00:00:31,727 It inspired artists and audiences around the world. 9 00:00:31,728 --> 00:00:34,358 And as tonight's performers will demonstrate, 10 00:00:34,361 --> 00:00:38,431 the blues continued to draw a crowd, because this music 11 00:00:38,428 --> 00:00:41,898 speaks to something universal. 12 00:00:41,895 --> 00:00:45,965 No one goes through life without both joy and pain. 13 00:00:45,961 --> 00:00:49,261 ♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪ 14 00:00:49,261 --> 00:00:52,791 Keb Mo: Right now, what I see is a great moment in history happening. 15 00:00:52,795 --> 00:00:53,995 B.B. King is here. 16 00:00:53,994 --> 00:00:57,764 Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Gary Clark, Jr., Shemekia Copeland, 17 00:00:57,761 --> 00:00:59,361 you know, and Warren Haynes. 18 00:00:59,361 --> 00:01:00,361 Derek Trucks. 19 00:01:00,361 --> 00:01:04,461 Derek Trucks: Buddy Guy and Booker T. and Fred Leslie and the President 20 00:01:04,461 --> 00:01:05,331 and First Lady will be here. 21 00:01:05,328 --> 00:01:09,158 Pretty exciting stuff, so stories for the grand kids. 22 00:01:09,161 --> 00:01:10,431 (laughter) 23 00:01:10,428 --> 00:01:14,898 ♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪ 24 00:01:14,895 --> 00:01:17,995 Buddy Guy: I never dreamed of even driving down Pennsylvania Avenue. 25 00:01:17,994 --> 00:01:20,824 You know, not just being invited into the White House. 26 00:01:20,828 --> 00:01:24,128 I am going to be performing what I know best, is blues music, 27 00:01:24,127 --> 00:01:27,527 and we got a -- I got a lot of great friends around me. 28 00:01:27,528 --> 00:01:28,858 I am not doing it alone. 29 00:01:28,861 --> 00:01:40,131 ♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪ 30 00:01:40,127 --> 00:01:43,427 Shemekia Copeland: There is so many different styles of blues. 31 00:01:43,428 --> 00:01:47,828 Like my father, Johnny Copeland, he was Texas blues along with 32 00:01:47,828 --> 00:01:52,458 Gatemouth Brown and Albert Collins and even people, 33 00:01:52,461 --> 00:01:54,531 Stevie Ray Vaughn, who people know very well. 34 00:01:54,528 --> 00:01:58,298 And then you have Chicago style blues which is Buddy Guy and 35 00:01:58,294 --> 00:01:58,894 people like that. 36 00:01:58,895 --> 00:02:01,925 So everybody has their own different flavor that they 37 00:02:01,928 --> 00:02:03,298 put into the music. 38 00:02:03,294 --> 00:02:05,224 ♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪ 39 00:02:05,227 --> 00:02:07,557 Derek Trucks: I mean, there is a lot of different regional sounds, 40 00:02:07,561 --> 00:02:11,591 but, you know, it started as field hollers and it started 41 00:02:11,594 --> 00:02:15,024 as you know just getting it off of your chest and it is 42 00:02:15,027 --> 00:02:16,157 story telling. 43 00:02:16,161 --> 00:02:16,991 Susan Tedeschi: Exactly. 44 00:02:16,994 --> 00:02:17,994 Derek Trucks: It is honesty, it is truth. 45 00:02:17,994 --> 00:02:21,064 And the beauty of that music is you can hear recordings from the 46 00:02:21,061 --> 00:02:25,491 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, and it is just as immediate and just as 47 00:02:25,494 --> 00:02:27,894 relevant now as it has ever been. 48 00:02:27,895 --> 00:02:30,025 Keb Mo: Blues I look at as a world music. 49 00:02:30,027 --> 00:02:32,757 Even though it is American, the blues we know here, 50 00:02:32,761 --> 00:02:34,491 is the American blues. 51 00:02:34,494 --> 00:02:37,064 But every culture has it's blues. 52 00:02:37,061 --> 00:02:41,391 So the American blues translates all around the world. 53 00:02:41,394 --> 00:02:43,894 People can just feel it because it is the people's music. 54 00:02:43,895 --> 00:02:46,025 It is really like it is the people's house. 55 00:02:46,027 --> 00:02:47,297 Susan Tedeschi: It is one thing if we can't speak the 56 00:02:47,294 --> 00:02:48,864 language of other musicians. 57 00:02:48,861 --> 00:02:50,731 We can actually get up and play blues pretty 58 00:02:50,728 --> 00:02:52,058 much with anybody anywhere. 59 00:02:52,061 --> 00:02:52,761 Derek Trucks: Yeah. 60 00:02:52,761 --> 00:02:54,461 Susan Tedeschi: Which is a beautiful thing too. 61 00:02:54,461 --> 00:02:57,161 Warren Haynes: Still to this day, I think it is one of the most expressive 62 00:02:57,161 --> 00:03:00,831 art forms, because it is such a communicative thing. 63 00:03:00,828 --> 00:03:04,828 It is really tapping into your inner most emotions. 64 00:03:04,828 --> 00:03:09,898 And there is no expression deeper I think than someone 65 00:03:09,895 --> 00:03:13,795 who is presenting the blues in an honest way. 66 00:03:13,795 --> 00:03:17,265 Taraji P. Henson: It is about baring your soul at that moment, 67 00:03:17,261 --> 00:03:18,191 whatever it is. 68 00:03:18,194 --> 00:03:21,024 If it is a happy moment -- ♪ if my man done left me ♪ 69 00:03:21,027 --> 00:03:23,257 -- or, you know, you just want to talk about eating 70 00:03:23,261 --> 00:03:24,391 grandma's corn bread. 71 00:03:24,394 --> 00:03:28,224 Like you can sing about anything and it is a mood and it is just 72 00:03:28,227 --> 00:03:30,057 your state of mind in that moment. 73 00:03:30,061 --> 00:03:31,591 And that is the blues. 74 00:03:31,594 --> 00:03:32,364 That is the truth. 75 00:03:32,361 --> 00:03:34,661 It is your truth, whatever that is at the moment. 76 00:03:34,661 --> 00:03:41,961 ♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪ 77 00:03:41,961 --> 00:03:44,191 Buddy Guy: You know, I was born on a farm in Louisiana, 78 00:03:44,194 --> 00:03:45,964 my daddy was a sale croppers. 79 00:03:45,961 --> 00:03:48,761 And I picked cotton by hand and not by machine. 80 00:03:48,761 --> 00:03:50,691 And you couldn't even dream of this, 81 00:03:50,695 --> 00:03:53,965 because my mother had a stroke when I was about 16. 82 00:03:53,961 --> 00:03:57,661 And that was the end of my education, and I am like saying, 83 00:03:57,661 --> 00:03:58,561 this is it. 84 00:03:58,561 --> 00:04:00,491 You know, and all of us said, you go to sleep and wake up, 85 00:04:00,494 --> 00:04:03,194 and you are invited to play music in the White House. 86 00:04:03,194 --> 00:04:05,524 Self taught, never learned anything from a book, 87 00:04:05,528 --> 00:04:07,428 so it is a dream come true for me. 88 00:04:07,428 --> 00:04:24,058 ♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪ 89 00:04:24,061 --> 00:04:30,831 (applause)