Rock Roll, Volume 3 (Crossroads, Blues in Technicolor)

Crossroads traces the blues, another African American tradition that changed the sound of Rock and Roll, from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago to the UK, where this earthy rich sound inspired a host of young British musicians bored with the pop music of the day. Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones and Jeff Beck tell how their hits introduced American fans to their own indigenous blues masters, like Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker. Also in this video, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on Jimi Hendrix, he dawning of the guitar hero and the birth of heavy metal. Blues in Technicolor takes viewers on a trip into the psychadelic rock world of the late '60s and early '70s. Using interviews with the Byrds, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd, this video shows how a bohemian folks culture in San Francisco set off an international explosion of musical experimentation and eclecticism.