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The Blues
executive produced by Martin Scorsese
The Blues™, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, consists
of seven feature-length films that capture the essence of the blues while exploring
how this art form so deeply influenced music and people the world over.
The series begins with the journey from Africa to the Mississippi Delta — where the music grew from slaves' field hollers, work songs and spirituals — then travels up the Mississippi River to the juke joints, house parties and recording studios of Memphis and Chicago, and culminates with the emotional embrace of this African-American creation by musicians and people throughout the world.
"The blues is at once American and worldly," said Martin Scorsese, who began work on the project six years ago. "It's a form of storytelling that is so universal that it has inspired people beyond our borders and continues to influence music here and abroad. We're hopeful that the series and YEAR OF THE BLUES will introduce new audiences worldwide to this music and also inspire kids, whether they like rock or hip hop, to better understand the struggles and genius that gave birth to what they listen to today."
"Our goal never was to produce the definitive work on the blues," Scorsese added. "It was, from the start, to create highly personal and impressionistic films as seen through the eyes of the most creative directors around with a passion for this music."
The Blues is the culmination of a great ambition for Scorsese — to honor the music he loves, to preserve its legacy and to work closely with talented feature film directors united in their desire to celebrate this art.
Go behind the scenes for more information on The Blues, with film synopses, director bios and transcripts, video clips, musician bios, and a discography for each film.
"I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too,
I got a John the Conquer root, I'm gonna mess with you,
I'm gonna make you girls lead me by my hand,
Then the world will know the hoochie coochie man."
Written and directed by Charles Burnett
Director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's
Wedding, To Sleep with Anger) presents a tale about a
young boy's encounter with his family in Mississippi in the 1950s, and intergenerational
tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel and the devilish moans of the blues.
Says Burnett: "The sound of the blues was a part of my environment that I took for granted. However, as years passed, the blues slowly emerged as an essential source of imagery, humor, irony, and insight that allows one to reflect on the human condition. I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself. In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues."
Performances in The Warming by the Devil's Fire
Big Bill Broonzy *
Elizabeth Cotten *
Reverend Gary Davis *
Ida Cox *
Willie Dixon *
Lightnin' Hopkins *
Son House *
Mississippi John Hurt *
Vasti Jackson
Bessie Smith *
Mamie Smith *
Victoria Spivey *
Sister Rosetta Tharpe *
Dinah Washington *
Muddy Waters *
Sonny Boy Williamson *
*indicates archival performance
Directed by Richard Pearce
Written by Robert Gordon
Director Richard Pearce (The Long Walk Home, Leap of
Faith, A Family Thing) traces the musical odyssey
of blues legend B.B. King in a film that pays tribute to the city that gave birth to a
new style of blues. Pearce's homage to Memphis features original performances by B.B.
King, Bobby Rush, Rosco Gordon and Ike Turner, as well as historical footage of Howlin'
Wolf and Rufus Thomas.
Says Pearce: "The Blues is a chance to celebrate one of the last truly indigenous American art forms, before it all but disappears, swallowed whole by the rock and roll generation it spawned. Hopefully we'll get there before it's too late."
Performances in The Road to Memphis
Fats Domino *
Rosco Gordon *
B.B. King
Little Milton
Little Richard *
Bobby Rush
Ike Turner
Howlin' Wolf *
The Coasters *
*indicates archival performance
Interviews in The Road to Memphis
Bobby Rush
B.B. King
Rosco Gordon
Rufus Thomas
Calvin Newborn
Hubert Sumlin
Chris Spindel (WDIA program officer)
Don Kern (WDIA Production Manager)
Dr. Louis Cannonball Cantor
Cato Walker III
Little Milton Campbell
Sam Phillips
Ike Turner
Jim Dickinson
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John the Conqueror, also known
as High John the Conqueror, John de Conquer, and many other folk
variants, is a folk hero from African-American folklore. He is
associated with a certain root, the John the Conquer root, or John the
Conqueroo, to which magical powers are ascribed in American folklore,
especially among the hoodoo tradition of folk magic. It's also known,
that the seeds of plants belonging to the genus impomea contain a
LSD-like psychedelic substance (Ergine).
The
root and its magical uses are mentioned in a number of blues lyrics.
Regardless of which name is used, in these contexts "conqueror" is
pronounced "conker" or sometimes "conqueroo".
The magic of John the Conqueroo
became known beyond the circle of African American hoodoo practitioners
by being mentioned in a number of well known blues lyrics.
John the Conqueror was
reputedly a real person – an African prince who was sold as a slave in
the USA. Although enslaved, his spirit was never broken.
His
name survived into folklore and he became a trickster figure because he
always outwitted his masters. The “Br’er Rabbit” character from the
Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris was said to be based on John
the Conqueror.
One of the most famous – and
most powerful – roots in voodoo conjure is John the Conqueror root. It
was mentioned in many famous blues songs by artists like Muddy Waters
and Howlin’ Wolf, all of whom were no strangers to “conjure,” as folk
magic was often called in the American South during the early decades
or the twentieth century and before.
"My pistol may snap, my mojo is frail
But I rub my root, my luck will never fail
When I rub my root, my John the Conquer root
Aww, you know there ain't nothin' she can do, Lord,
I rub my John the Conquer root"
In
1954, Muddy Waters recorded a very popular version of Willie Dixon's
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" song with an additional verse mentioning
John the Conquer root:
"I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too,
I got a John the Conquer root, I'm gonna mess with you,
I'm gonna make you girls lead me by my hand,
Then the world will know the hoochie coochie man."
In 1955, Bo Diddley wrote and released "I'm A Man" with the following verse:
"I goin' back down,
To Kansas to
Bring back the second cousin,
Little John the conqueroo"
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John the Conqueror, also
known as High John the Conqueror, John de Conquer, and many other folk
variants, is a folk hero from African-American folklore. He is
associated with a certain root, the John the Conquer root, or John the
Conqueroo, to which magical powers are ascribed in American folklore,
especially among the hoodoo tradition of folk magic. It's also known,
that the seeds of plants belonging to the genus impomea contain a
LSD-like psychedelic substance (Ergine).
The
root and its magical uses are mentioned in a number of blues lyrics.
Regardless of which name is used, in these contexts "conqueror" is
pronounced "conker" or sometimes "conqueroo".
The magic of John the Conqueroo became known beyond the circle of African American hoodoo practitioners by being mentioned in a number of well known blues lyrics.
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Written and directed by Wim Wenders
Director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club; Wings
of Desire; Paris, Texas ) explores the lives of
his favorite blues artists — Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J. B. Lenoir
— in a film that is part history and part personal pilgrimage. The film tells the
story of these artists' lives in music through a fictional film-within-a-film, rare
archival footage, and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians, including
Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, Eagle Eye Cherry, Nick Cave and The Bad
Seeds, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cassandra Wilson, Garland Jeffreys, Los Lobos,
and others.
Says Wenders: "These songs meant the world to me. I felt there was more truth in them than in any book I had read about America, or in any movie I had ever seen. I've tried to describe, more like a poem than in a 'documentary,' what moved me so much in their songs and voices."
Performances in The Soul of a Man
T-Bone Burnett
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Shemekia Copeland
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Alvin Youngblood Hart
Skip James *
Garland Jeffreys
Chris Thomas King
J.B. Lenoir *
Los Lobos
John Mayall *
Bonnie Raitt
Lou Reed
Vernon Reid
Marc Ribot
James "Blood" Ulmer
Lucinda Williams
Cassandra Wilson
*indicates archival performance
Cast:
Skip James: Keith B. Brown
Blind Willie Johnson: Chris Thomas King
Directed by Marc Levin
Director Marc Levin (Slam, Whiteboys,
Brooklyn Babylon) travels to Chicago with hip-hop legend Chuck
D (of Public Enemy) and Marshall Chess (son of Leonard Chess and heir to the Chess
Records legacy) to explore the heyday of Chicago blues as they unite to produce an
album that seeks to bring veteran blues players together with contemporary hip hop
musicians. Along with never-before-seen archival footage of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy
Waters and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, are original performances by Koko Taylor,
Otis Rush, Magic Slim, Ike Turner, and Sam Lay.
Says Levin: "When we were shooting Sam Lay and his band at the Chicago Blues Festival, they were playing Muddy Waters' classic, 'I Got My Mojo Workin.' I closed my eyes and was transported back to when I was a 15-year-old hanging in my buddy's basement listening to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for the first time. My life was changed that day, and 35 years later the music's still shakin' my soul. The feel of that day in the basement is what I have set out to capture in this film."
Performances in Godfathers and Sons
Lonnie Brooks
Paul Butterfield *
Common
Chuck D and Public Enemy *
Bo Diddley *
Sam Lay
Ike Turner
Pinetop Perkins
Otis Rush
Magic Slim
Smokey Smothers
Koko Taylor
Sonny Terry * & Brownie McGhee *
"Electric Mud Band":
Pete Cosey, Phil Upchurch, Louis Satterfield, Morris Jennings
Kyle Rahzel and Ahmir (a.k.a. ?uestlove) of The Roots
Muddy Waters *
Sonny Boy Williamson *
Howlin' Wolf *
Willie Dixon *
Blind Arvella Gray *
Carrie Robinson *
*indicates archival performance
Interviews in Godfathers and Sons
Marshall Chess
Chuck D
Jamar Chess
Phil Chess
Koko Taylor
Magic Slim
Common
Sam Lay
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood (Play Misty for Me, Bird,
Unforgiven) explores his life-long passion for
piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical
footage in addition to interviews and performances by such living
legends as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as well as Dave Brubeck
and Marcia Ball.
Says Eastwood: "The blues has always been part of my musical life and the piano has a special place, beginning when my mother brought home all of Fats Waller's records. Also, the music has always played a part in my movies. A piano blues documentary gives me a chance to make a film that is more directly connected to the subject of the music than the features that I have been doing throughout my career."
Marcia Ball
Dave Brubeck
Ray Charles Jay McShann
Pinetop Perkins
and many more!
HEAD! The Monkees movie (1968)
In this 1968 film, the
Monkees valiantly attempted to deflate their own myth. The plot is,
essentially, about demystification. Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter
Tork, and Mike Nesmith - with the aid of writer Jack Nicholson (the only
credited author due to legalities)- tackle such topics as filmmaking,
the media treatment and madness of the Vietnam War, Davy Jones' "way
with the ladies", and, most importantly, commercialization. Each group
member is presented in a unique light - in every case shattering the
image that had been produced by the "media machine". The Monkees went
out on a limb with this film by creating an almost surreal work with a
loosely bound "plot". Their younger fans, unfortunately, simply missed
the point. Because of the poor publicity of the film at the time of its
release, older teenagers had no clue what "Head" was trying to say. As a
result, its box office showing was disastrous. "Head" is more for the
film enthusiast than the casual Monkees fan in some respects. The
soundtrack does, however, feature some of the finest and most
sophisticated music of the group's career. And yes, they DO play their
own instruments on the tunes, but receive assistance in composing and
performing from the likes of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Carole King.
REMEMBER THE MONKEES ?
The Monkees were a pop rock group. Assembled in Los Angeles in 1966 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. All music was supervised by producer Don Kirshner.
At the time of the group's formation, its producers saw The Monkees as a Beatles-like band. At the start, the band members provided vocals, and were given some performing and production opportunities, but they eventually fought for and earned the right to collectively supervise all musical output under the band's name. The group undertook several concert tours, allowing an opportunity to perform as a live band as well as on the TV series. Although the show was canceled in 1968, the band continued releasing records until 1970. The group reached the height of fame from 1966 to 1968, and influenced many future artists. In 1986, the television show and music experienced a revival, which led to a series of reunion tours, and new records featuring various incarnations of the band's lineup. The group went on to sell 50 Million records worldwide.
Some may find this a tad interesting
1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.
It has been 44 years since the animated short first aired
Get some popcorn and sit down and watch it again !!!
The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr.
I originally caught this back in 1996 in its one week run at a movie theatre. ED Wood has always been one of my Favorite low budget directors !
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Documentary about the infamous Edward D. Wood Jr. covering his life and
movies. There are interviews with people who worked with him or knew
him. They include: Vampira, Dolores Fuller, Bela Lugosi Jr., Loretta
King, Gregory Walcott and Paul Marco. Interviews are mixed with clips
from the movies or some bizarre recreations. It is interesting
(somewhat) but was this really needed? I've seen all of Wood's films
and they're just terrible. Wood had ambitions but not a bit of talent
to carry them out. I wouldn't say he was the worst director ever but
he's down there. Do we really need a docu on a very mediocre film
maker? I do like the fact that they didn't try to make Wood out to be
some sort of saint. More than a few of those interviewed (especially
Lugosi Jr.) pretty much hated the man and it comes through loud and
clear. Also they totally ignore his films in the adult film industry in
the 1960s and 70s. Still it's of interest if you're a Wood fan. The
best interviews are with Vampira (who tears Wood apart) and Dolores
Fuller (a long time girlfriend).
If you liked this ... do You dare Enter
Marijuana
Sonny Bono appears onscreen to
tell kids that marijuana is a "bummer" that turns you into a "weedhead"
and will make you "trip out" (the fact that, based upon his performance,
Sonny appears to have ingested unknown substances before the cameras
started rolling tends to limit the film's credibility somewhat). The
film is actually a lot of fun!
You will be disturbed, yet hysterical all the way through.
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... and it "maybe" a Gateway drug
Case Study: Heroin
This 1969 film is about drug education propaganda film from the 60’s. This time the focus is on Heroin.
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