It is from the blues that all that may be called American...

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

James Weldon Johnson

Black Manhattan, ch. 11 (1930).

James Weldon Johnson Quotes

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.