Michael Ned Holte is a writer, curator and educator living in Los Angeles. This set takes the blues as its point of origin — the blues as form, content and inheritance. The episode features: Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie, Rev. Edward G. Clayborn, Fred Frith, Gastr del Sol with Tony Conrad, Roscoe Mitchell, Alice Coltrane, K. Curtis Lyle, Toshirô Mayuzumi with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, Howlin’ Wolf, John Fahey and Charley Patton.