Summary: Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOUContents: Death don't have no mercy (Blind Gary Davis) -- Rolling log blues (Lottie Kimbrough) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves and Bro.) -- Expressman blues (Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell) -- Love in vain #1 (Robert Johnson) -- Tallahatchie River blues (Mattie Delaney) -- High water everywhere, Part 1 (Charley Patton) -- Original stack O'Lee Blues (Long Cleve Reed & Little Harvey Hull...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023