The Story

One feature of summer, in many cities, is the blues festival. Augusta Lee Collins is familiar with that scene. His career spans 40 years, opening for and playing with music legends such as Lightnin' Hopkins and Miles Davis. This year Augusta Lee was inducted into the Bay Area Blues Hall of Fame. Also, Brad Stoller and his "adventures with dad."

During the reign of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979), nearly 90 percent of Cambodian dancers and musicians perished. Sophiline Cheam was only eight years old when her family was driven from Phnom Penh to a life of extreme labor, starvation and disease working as peasants in the fields. Her life was transformed when the Khmer Rouge was overthrown. Sophiline became one of the first classical dancers trained by those who had survived to pass on the ancient art form. Also on the show: a chance encounter with Bishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.

Dick speaks with folklorist Bill Ferris about the "single strand" instruments—like a single strand of wire fixed to the side of a wooden shack and played with a bottle—that led the way to the blues that we know today.

Matthew Stoneman moved to Los Angeles with dreams of rock 'n' roll stardom. Instead he became a thief, and landed in prison. To pass the time, he got a guitar and learned more than a hundred classic songs, in Spanish, from the Mexican inmates. When he got out he became an unlikely troubadour. Also: the origins of the Heisman Trophy.