Jack Owens & Blind Bud Spires: Can’t See Blues (1978)

Jack Owens (vocal and guitar) and Benjamin “Blind Bud“ Spires (harmonica) perform “Can’t See Blues,“ a composite blues of Owens’ devising. (Not to be confused with Peetie Wheatstraw’s blues of the same name.) Shot by Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop at Jack Owens’ farm near Bentonia, Mississippi, August 1978. For more videos from the American Patchwork fieldwork and information about Alan Lomax and his collections, visit: . []