I Am the Blues (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes

I Am the Blues (2015)

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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. Visiting the last original blues devils, 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.

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Cast

Bobby Rush
Barbara Lynn
Henry Gray
Carol Fran
Freddie King
Lazy Lester
Bilbo Walker
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
RL Boyce
LC Ulmer
Lil' Buck Sinegal
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Critic Reviews for I Am the Blues

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This amiable documentary surveys small towns in Mississippi and Louisiana where aging blues musicians live and practice their art.

July 20, 2017 | Full Review…
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It will be warmly welcomed by lovers of music that hasn't had its rough edges sanded away.

July 17, 2017 | Full Review…
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Blues is mostly a spirited, rambling trip through the history of this American music, but that journey is under the cloud of a melancholy bleakness.

July 13, 2017 | Full Review…
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Mr. Rush is amiable company, quick with stories about playing for next to nothing in the 1950s and '60s.

July 11, 2017 | Full Review…
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Doesn't romanticize or overcomprehend, choosing instead to concentrate on life's non-choices.

June 3, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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The music is ingrained in the landscape, and this movie takes us there.

September 6, 2017 | Full Review…
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