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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rated by buyers NR (Not Rated)
Type of bind: DVD
EAN num: 9780738925752
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN number: 0738925756
Label: Shout Factory
Manufacturer: Shout Factory
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Shout Factory
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 10480
Studio: Shout Factory
Theatrical Release Date: 1993
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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. 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. 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 sucess 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. 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 colour 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. --Sam Sutherland
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This film should have been great. The list of musicians profiled gave me high expectations. However, it suffers on mainly two fronts: first, the filming is amateurish. Although the sound quality is tremendous, the way scenes and interviews were filmed and edited was stale and uninventive. Compare this to "You See Me Laughin'" and you'll see a vast difference in the quality. This documentary was simply not filmed or edited well. Some of the best parts of this film were the outtakes that were in the "extras" section of the DVD. Dave Stewart, throughout the film, was an annoyance, yet in the outtakes, he made a solid contribution. The second weakness, unfortunately, was Robert Palmer. In spite of his experience, credentials, and personal relationships with some of the folks in this film, his interviews were simply boring. Not the fault of his subjects, but rather he simply makes too many inane comments and asks vapid, silly questions. Simply put, he made a film with potential into a mediocrity. Too bad. Avoid this film and pick up "You See Me Laughin."
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THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY AND PERFORMANCE DVD OF A JOURNEY INTO MISSISSIPPI BLUES COUNTRY BY ROBERT PALMER (NOT THE 80'S SINGER - BUT THE ROBERT PALMER FROM ARKANSAS WHO IS A MUSIC SCHOLAR) AND DAVE STEWART (OF THE EURYTHMICS - YES THE FAMOUS 80'S DUET). THEY START OUT IN MEMPHIS, ON BEALE STREET, THEN VENTURE INTO MISSISSIPPI BLUES COUNTRY.
You get a performance by Booker T. Laury in Memphis performing "Memphis Blues". He is a blues pianoist.
First they go to the Mississippi Hill Country, where you get to see the legendary north Mississippi Hill Country Bluesman R.L.BURNSIDE AT HIS HOME! (Please see my review of the North Mississppi Allstar's "Keep On Marchin' DVD). R.L.BURNSIDE PERFORMS "JUMPER ON THE LINE" on his front porch.
Other performances include Jessie Mae Hemphill "You Can Talk About Me".
Junior Kimbrough "All Night Long". Roosevelt Barnes "Heartbroken Man". Big Jack Johnson " When is Mama Comin' Home?. Jack Owens and Bud Spires "The Devil". and Lonnie Pitchford "If I had Possession over Judgement Day. Some of these performances are at "juke" joints. All are filmed on location in Mississippi. This gives you a good introduction to some of the lessor known blues artist.
I learned from this DVD, that the term "juke" came from Africa and referred to a place of entertainment. And thus, evolved "juke" joints and "juke" boxes.
Then you get AUDIO PERFORMANCES ONLY WITHOUT ANY VIDEO. These performances are good, but they would be better if you got the video of the artist performing the song. The songs are great blues songs.
The approx. running time is 90 minutes. This Blues documentary is not as well polished as Kenny Wayne Shepard's Blues from the Backroads DVD, but it is very real, probably more spontaneous, and it tells and shows a good story of these Mississippi Blues Artists.
IF YOU LIKE BLUES OR AMERICAN MUSIC HISTORY, OR SEE A BLUES JOURNEY FROM A DIFFERENT PERPECTIVE, THEN I THINK YOU'LL ENJOY THIS ONE. HOWEVER, BE AWARE OF IT'S LIMITATIONS. IN THAT CONTEXT, I DO RECOMMEND THIS DVD!!!
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For those that love real rural blues this must be one of the best insights into the lives and music of the last of the old time juke joint musicians. It has all the drive and raw power that most of us white kids seldom get a chance to experience even when we were lucky enough to see some of these guys on tour. Go and buy this one and see a little of the life of these great characters and experience some their great driving electric blues.
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This is a wonderful DVD. The highlights for me were seeing
R. L. Burnside at his home and getting to see Roosevelt Barnes
perform Heart Broken Man. Sadly both of these great performers are no
longer around.
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