Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads
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DEEP BLUES:MUSICAL PILGRIMAGE - DVD Movie
Mugge, whose profiles of Al Green, Sonny Rollins, and other musicians probed their cultural and artistic contexts with intelligence and sensitivity, captures both the music and the milieu in crisp color footage. Deep Blues thus triumphs as a testament to the blues' deep roots and an unintentional eulogy for Palmer, who would pass away in the mid-'90s just as the gut-bucket music of Burnside and Kimbrough served notice that the blues were alive and kicking. This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock writer Robert Palmer embarked on their 1990 odyssey into Mississippi delta country. He's an astute guide, and Mugge underlines this role by pairing him with British rocker Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), whose avid interest in the music makes him an effective foil.
The film's real triumph, however, rests in the team's success in capturing modern day blues survivors and inheritors playing in the bars, juke joints, and barns of delta country. Palmer, who had returned several years earlier to the delta to capture these artists for his scrappy Fat Possum label, introduces us to the now-amplified but still elemental blues of R.L. Burnside, the late Junior Kimbrough, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, and other keepers of the faith. What Arkansas native and former Memphis stalwart Palmer knew, and Mugge captured on film, was that the blues was not only alive but still intimately woven into the daily lives of rural blacks.
Palmer, a former rock musician and Memphis Blues Festival cofounder best known for his bylines in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, had already chronicled the saga of Southern blues in his seminal book that provides the film's title. --Sam Sutherland
Product Info
- Actor
- Robert Palmer, David A. Stewart, Abraham Schwab, Booker T. Laury, R.L. Burnside
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.33:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Sony
- Creator
- Robert Palmer, David A. Stewart, Erich Roland, Robert Mugge, Eileen Gregory, John Stewart, Robert Maier
- Director
- Robert Mugge
- EAN
- 9780738925752
- EAN List
- Format
- Color, DVD, NTSC
- ISBN
- 0738925756
- Label
- Shout Factory
- Manufacturer
- Shout Factory
- MPN
- 826663017991
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Original Release Date
- 1990-01-01
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- 826663017991
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Shout Factory
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2003-07-22
- Running Time
- 91
- SKU
- 91210
- Studio
- Shout Factory
- Theatrical Release Date
- 1990
- Title
- Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads
- UPC
- 826663017991
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 826663017991
- ASIN
- B00009VU35
- Sales Rank
- 18361
