It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time. The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues. Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. And you might say it all boiled down to this single-disc distillation, which draws upon the vaults of major labels Universal and Sony. A massive media campaign comprising seven documentary films broadcast on public television and released as a DVD box set, plus accompanying soundtrack albums, a 13-part radio series, a companion book, 12 individual artist compilations, and a five-CD box set, The Blues, executive produced by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, threatened to be even more all-pervasive than Ken Burns' Jazz project, after which.
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