It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues
by Randal Myler, Dan Wheetman, Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Ron Taylor

This sizzling revue celebrates the blues through a series of ravishing songs that changed the way the world hears the human heartbeat.

Taking New York by storm, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues is a dynamic and moving musical journey tracing the evolution of the blues from Africa to Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago.

The first act, with songs, instrumental music and dialogue, moves from an African harvest celebration (with authentic songs and music), through the middle passage (with an authentic African song of lamentation and sounds), to plantation life, with work songs, early spirituals and other songs celebrating life, love, disapointment and triumph.

With a minimum of dialogue, Act I also explores the connection between the early music of indentured servants from Europe and that of enslaved people from Africa.

Act II heads up the Mississippi River, through Memphis and St. Louis, on its way to “Sweet Home Chicago.”

And how sweet it becomes!

With a full rhythm section of musicians as support, the ensemble demonstrates why and how the blues became the foundation of nearly every genre of American popular music.