English subtitles for clip: File:Behind the Scenes- Red, White and Blues.webm

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♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪

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The President:
Like so many of the men
and women who sang them,

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the blues refused to be
limited by the circumstances

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of their birth.

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The music migrated north from
Mississippi Delta to Memphis

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to my hometown of Chicago.

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It helped lay the foundation for
Rock & Roll, R&B and Hip-Hop.

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It inspired artists and
audiences around the world.

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And as tonight's performers
will demonstrate,

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the blues continued to draw
a crowd, because this music

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speaks to something universal.

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No one goes through life
without both joy and pain.

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♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪

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Keb Mo:
Right now, what I see is a great
moment in history happening.

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B.B. King is here.

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Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Gary
Clark, Jr., Shemekia Copeland,

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you know, and Warren Haynes.

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Derek Trucks.

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Derek Trucks:
Buddy Guy and Booker T. and
Fred Leslie and the President

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and First Lady will be here.

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Pretty exciting stuff, so
stories for the grand kids.

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(laughter)

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♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪

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Buddy Guy:
I never dreamed of even driving
down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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You know, not just being
invited into the White House.

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I am going to be performing what
I know best, is blues music,

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and we got a -- I got a lot
of great friends around me.

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I am not doing it alone.

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♪♪ (music playing) ♪♪

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Shemekia Copeland:
There is so many
different styles of blues.

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Like my father, Johnny Copeland,
he was Texas blues along with

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Gatemouth Brown and Albert
Collins and even people,

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Stevie Ray Vaughn, who
people know very well.

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And then you have Chicago style
blues which is Buddy Guy and

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people like that.

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So everybody has their own
different flavor that they

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put into the music.

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Derek Trucks:
I mean, there is a lot of
different regional sounds,

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but, you know, it started as
field hollers and it started

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as you know just getting it
off of your chest and it is

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story telling.

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Susan Tedeschi:
Exactly.

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Derek Trucks:
It is honesty, it is truth.

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And the beauty of that music is
you can hear recordings from the

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1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, and it
is just as immediate and just as

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relevant now as
it has ever been.

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Keb Mo:
Blues I look at
as a world music.

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Even though it is American,
the blues we know here,

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is the American blues.

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But every culture
has it's blues.

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So the American blues
translates all around the world.

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People can just feel it because
it is the people's music.

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It is really like it
is the people's house.

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Susan Tedeschi:
It is one thing if
we can't speak the

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language of other musicians.

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We can actually get up
and play blues pretty

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much with anybody anywhere.

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Derek Trucks:
Yeah.

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Susan Tedeschi:
Which is a beautiful thing too.

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Warren Haynes:
Still to this day, I think it
is one of the most expressive

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art forms, because it is
such a communicative thing.

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It is really tapping into
your inner most emotions.

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And there is no expression
deeper I think than someone

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who is presenting the
blues in an honest way.

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Taraji P. Henson:
It is about baring your
soul at that moment,

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whatever it is.

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If it is a happy moment --
♪ if my man done left me ♪

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-- or, you know, you just
want to talk about eating

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grandma's corn bread.

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Like you can sing about anything
and it is a mood and it is just

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your state of mind
in that moment.

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And that is the blues.

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That is the truth.

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It is your truth, whatever
that is at the moment.

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Buddy Guy:
You know, I was born
on a farm in Louisiana,

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my daddy was a sale croppers.

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And I picked cotton by
hand and not by machine.

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And you couldn't
even dream of this,

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because my mother had a
stroke when I was about 16.

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And that was the end of my
education, and I am like saying,

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this is it.

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You know, and all of us said,
you go to sleep and wake up,

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and you are invited to play
music in the White House.

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Self taught, never learned
anything from a book,

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so it is a dream
come true for me.

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(applause)