Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads DVD (1992)

Documentary film made by David Stewart of Eurythmics in collaboration with music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge, who made Robert Johnson doco - Hellhounds On My Trail (1998). This film provides insight into the location, cast and characteristics of Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues. It shows us then unknown blues musicians from Mississippi who play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a barber shop, in big clubs. The film really captures the true faces of blues and shows us that this music had nothing to do with nostalgia or record company hypes. All the performers are absolutely great. Locations were set in Memphis, Tennessee, and various North Mississippi counties. Palmer (now deceased) provided many of the insights into the background and history of the blues, as narrator of the story of the Mississippi blues and author of the book of the same name, which I recommend highly.

With performances by: Roosevelt Barnes R. L. Burnside Jessie Mae Hemphill Big Jack Johnson Junior Kimbrough Booker T. Laury Jack Owens Lonnie Pitchford Bud Spires

Sound: Stereo Region: 4 Running Time: 1 Hours 31 Minutes

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