Blues ‘enthusiast’ Morgan Freeman’s album covers 100 years of the genre - WXXV News 25

Blues ‘enthusiast’ Morgan Freeman’s album covers 100 years of the genre - WXXV News 25

By  MARIA SHERMAN NEW YORK (AP) — It happened out of necessity. Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 25 years ago when some out-of-towners asked where they could hear blues music. Musicians were abundant; venues were not. “There was no place where we could guarantee that you could go in and hear it,” he told The Associated Press. “So, we had to establish that.” Freeman and his business partners, then-Mayor Bill Lu…