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There is probably no American filmmaker whose movies are more colored by--even, sometimes, propelled by--music than Martin Scorsese's, so music fans have been eagerly looking forward to the seven-part PBS series "The Blues," for which he served as executive producer. At the beginning of the first film in the series, "Feel Like Going Home," which Scorsese also directed, he says, "I can't imagine my life, or anyone else's, without music. It's like a light in the darkness that never goes out." He gave six other directors the freedom to make the films they wanted to make, while seeing to it that the basic ground--the history and influence of the Delta blues--was more or less ...