For Blues Artists, A Sad Refrain; Forgotten Musicians Reap Nothing From Platinum Sampler of Their Songs From: The Washington Post | Date: August 9, 2000| Author: | Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The voice in the commercial is a pure blues wail, carrying all the pain of a hard, black life in the Delta. The words are plaintive and muddied: "I'm gonna find my baby--woooo!--before the sun goes down."

The face on the TV screen connotes pure success: It's Tiger Woods, golf genius and multimillionaire spokesman for American Express. He's duffing around Manhattan, smiling as he sinks a putt into a throwaway cup on the Brooklyn Bridge, while the bluesman wails.

The juxtaposition doesn't seem to make much sense, but odder still is the story of how a snippet of a blues song recorded on a liquor- ...

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