Wonderful documentary on the Delta blues today
This brand new documentary from Jeff Konkel and Roger Stolle gives a true vision of the today situation of the juke joints and the blues in the Delta area. Remarkably filmed, it intersperes strong interviews with musicians, juke joint owners and patrons with great musical sets. Very well filmed and recorded. Enthralling!
And what a good idea to have subtitled the film, a thing that is very often lacking from US music documentaries and nevertheless very useful for non-Americans. This essential set combines the DVD + a CD of all the songs featured in the film.
Almost as good as being there
This is an excellent DVD/CD combo. I do wish more of the performances were complete in the DVD but they were long enough to get the feeling of being at a juke joint.
The CD has longer performances and the sound quality is pretty good.
I can't really add much to the first reviews. If you like authentic music. If you've been to the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic and Blues Festival and had a great time. And if you just want to hear music being played because they love the music you should get this set.
'Nuff said.
A great DVD
This is a film that is well worth watching multiple times. There are parts of the film that are very sad as it shows the struggles of the Blues in Mississippi, but at the same time it is inspiring watching the great Blues performers that are still there, thus the uplift (and that is in part what the Blues is all about). The quality of the cinematography/editing/sound is topnotch. My favorite performers in this film are Big A & The All-Stars and Terry Harmonica Bean. The interviews with Red are great!
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