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The Blues: The Road to Memphis

 

USA 2003, 86 minutes
Dir. Richard Pearce, Robert Kenner
Rating: [G]
Genres: Documentary, Music / Jazz & Blues

 

Aroview: The third part of Martin Scorcese's TV mini-series celebration of one of America's quintessential musical forms "the Blues".

This episode covers several 'Memphis bluesmen', particularly B.B King. and Rosco Gordon, remembering life on the 'chitlin circuit'. It also reaches into the present to interview present-day musician Bobby Rush, and includes performances from the W.C. Handy Awards.

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DVD Features

  • cast and/or crew interviews
  • music clips
  • trailers
  • aspect ratio: 16:9
 

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