Blues 'Enthusiast' Morgan Freeman's Album Covers 100 Years of the Genre
The album features orchestral blues covers by Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo' and Shemekia Copeland and supports the club's charitable arm.
- Actor Morgan Freeman released the album "Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience," featuring orchestral arrangements by London's Chineke! Orchestra to benefit the Ground Zero Arts Foundation, the charitable arm of his Clarksdale, Mississippi blues club.
- Freeman co-founded Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale after visitors to Robert Johnson's crossroads had nowhere to hear blues. The venue, established since 2001, sparked this latest musical venture.
- The album features Taj Mahal covering Son House's "Death Letter Blues," Keb' Mo' performing Albert King's "Cadillac Assembly Line," and Shemekia Copeland reclaiming Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues." Freeman provides historical narration throughout.
- CEO Eric Meier and the 89-year-old Freeman discussed the project on a Rolling Stone Zoom call, with Freeman stating he sees "no point" in retirement and borrows the mantra "Dont let the old man in."
- Freeman, whose career took off around age 50, hopes this project gives symphony orchestras a "pick-me-up" by drawing new audiences to classical performances. He sees it as part of his responsibility to support the art form.
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