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Pbs: Sweet Old Song (The Music of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong) WebsitePbs: Sweet Old Song (The Music of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong) Website
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Pbs: Sweet Old Song (The Music of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong)

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Learn about and listen to jazz, blues, folk, and country musician Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong and his roots in America's musical past. "Sweet Old Song" tells the story of the music and art partnership between Armstrong and his sculptor wife.

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Concepts

blues music, folk music

Additional Tags

blues, music and art, pbs, african-american culture, african-american music, howard armstrong, louie bluie, music links to art, music connections to art

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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