The State of the Blues | Sunday on 60 Minutes
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Jon Wertheim reports from the town of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the delta blues first flourished and where local musicians have been carrying on the blues tradition for generations. Wertheim meets Clarksdale native Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, heir to a long line of blues greats from the Delta - with surprise guest, actor and local blues club owner Morgan Freeman. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the “60 Minutes” YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1S7CLRu Watch full episodes: http://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more “60 Minutes” from “60 Minutes: Overtime”: http://cbsn.ws/1KG3sdr Follow “60 Minutes” on Instagram: http://bit.ly/23Xv8Ry Like “60 Minutes” on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1Xb1Dao Follow “60 Minutes” on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1KxUsqX Subscribe to our newsletter: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Download the CBS News app: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Try Paramount+ free: https://bit.ly/2OiW1kZ For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com
60 Minutes calls him a "defining blues voice of his generation." Here is a bit of what makes him & his music special. He is... Kingfish.