When we think of America, as we're meant to do on the 4th of July, we tend to think of The Blues, which, Ben Affleck aside of course, directly or indirectly is still by far Americas's greatest cultural influence on the world. There is no modern pop music (as the term is understood) which does not stem from it in one way or another. Searching YouTube for a few blue-hued nuggets we came across this little series of 60-second short films by Robert Mugge for Mississippi Public Broadcasting called Blues Breaks. After the Jump, watch quick and quirky little meditations on things like Muddy Waters' house, "Blues Foods" and "Blues Graves." Before all that watch Muddy Waters belt out Manish Boy in `78, just because you can: