I believe that this country has made tremendous a legal developments. There's a big difference between segregation being legal and segregation being illegal. Race was never the problem in america. That was a symptom of the problem. And right now in new orleans, what we have is forced re segregation going on in his schools. It makes me feel like i'm no longer under the deck,. But i'm still on a slave ship. We're not free yet, not by long shot. Sometimes it storts something init it stops. So i did this album told my story, my song. I a series of duets with new orleans musicians whom i knew. This is called unfinished blue.
First in a three-part journey into the soul of America, through the eyes of working people who happen to be artists. In this episode, David Slater in Sag Harbor, New York, and Kalamu ya Salaam in New Orleans. Retracing the 1960 journey by writer John Steinbeck for his book, “Travels with Charley in Search of America.” Produced by John Biewen.