- [Narrator] Woody's classic song "This Land is Your Land" was long rumored to have missing verses lost to time.
It turns out the campfire tune we all know started life as a protest song about the line between have and have not.
♪ This land was made for you and me ♪ In a few short lines, Guthrie captured both the promise and frustration of the America he knew.
(upbeat blues music) African-American musician and bandleader W. C. Handy began to experiment with the unusual rhythms and cadence of the former slaves music at his headquarters on Beale Street.
Andy wrote a wildly popular song called "The Memphis Blues" and he brought the music to a much wider audience.
Today, he is known as the Father of the Blues and, here on Beale Street, it was blues central.
(upbeat blues music continues) By the 1920s, the sounds of the blues rang out on the streets of Memphis, especially here on Beale Street.
In these clubs and restaurants was played some of the hottest music in the country.
(upbeat blues music continues) Over the next 20 years, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, and many other blues legends performed on Beale Street (upbeat blues music continues) In the seventies, Beale Street was officially declared the Home of the Blues by an act of the United States Congress.
(upbeat blues music continues) It's one of the most storied addresses in popular music and, not too far away, there's another one.
