However, this same factor lost his black audience, which left him neglected in the 1960s blues revival.

He stayed there until 1963, when two young white men found him and hauled him off to help lead the blues revival.

The audience for the blues began to shift from black to white when the "blues revival" began in the early 1960's.

A major inspiration for the widespread blues revival of the 1960's, it's still in print more than 40 years later.

But he did not join the acoustic blues revival by copying the old styles as other young white musicians did in the early 60's.

There are other signs of a blues revival in Clarksdale.

Despite various attempts to book the theater creatively, from blues revivals to 1960's singing groups to boxing, the Apollo is in use only sporadically.

What's behind the latest blues revival?

Barbee did not show up again in the music industry until the early 1960s, whereby this time the blues revival was in full swing.

"Death Letter" was the centerpiece of Son House's live performances during the blues revival of the 1960s.