I am the Blues

Product Description

Featuring blues legends, including recent Grammy winner, Bobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, Little Freddie King, Lazy Lester, and many others.
I am the Blues takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. The film visits blues musicians rooted in the genre’s heyday, many in their 80s, still living in the American deep south and touring the Chitlin’ Circuit. Let Bobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, Henry Gray, Carol Fran, Little Freddie King, Lazy Lester, Bilbo Walker, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, RL Boyce, LC Ulmer, Lil’ Buck Sinegal and their friends awaken the blues in all of us.
Bonus features include: Additional intimate footage and outtakes with Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, Barbara Lynn, Bobby Rush, Little Freddie King and more.

Review

WINNER – Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Documentary – Canadian Screen Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTION – SXSW Int’l Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Hot Docs Int’l Documentary Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION – IDFA
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Raindance Film Festival – —

I Am the Blues is a lovely film, made with a light, respectful touch. –Marc Glassman, Point of View Magazine

Heartache never sounded so good. –Chris Knight, National Post