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

Original title

Deep Blues

Directed by

Robert Mugge

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A music critic and a filmmaker travel through Mississippi to document the Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues. The film shows the places and the people who keep this music alive.

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What happens

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads is a British documentary film, released in 1991, and made by music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge, in collaboration with David A. Stewart and his brother John J. Stewart. The film provided insight into the location, cast and characteristics of Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues. Filming took place in 1990 in Memphis, Tennessee, and various North Mississippi counties. Theatrical release was in 1991 and home video release in the United Kingdom, the next year, as was a soundtrack album. A United States consumer edition came in 2000. Stewart initiated and financed the project, inspired by Palmer's 1981 book of the same name. Palmer provided many of the insights into the background and history of the blues, as a guide to Stewart and the film narrator. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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