This is a rare musical documentary where the blues, the counterculture and all walks of life get it on and let the music guide the way. The current timing of the release of this film couldn’t be better considering theįractured state of relations in the United States. The collaborative power of music and how the musicians involved didn't see color. Ironically, held only a few days after a Klu Klux Klan rally at the same
Due for online release on August 6th and on physical media September 17th, this previously unreleased vibrant capture of blues, brotherhood and music making has been over a half of a century in the making. Because 47 years later all his hard work finally paid off. The film was shelved and remained in suspended animation as Rosenthal had to sell his gear just to process the media! We are sure glad he did. Rosenthal had originally filmed the festival himself, traveling from Maryland with a crew, exhausting his budget and shooting over 40,000 feet of film. These reels of blues gold being excavated, synced up, beautified and released for our
A casualĬonversation between ‘Fat Possum Records’ (who will release the film on AugustĦ) co-owner Bruce Watson and Gene Rosenthal from Adelphi Records resulted in The film was once thought to be lost to the ravages of time, though luck would eventually intervene. Filmed for posterity, on June 6th-8th 1969 the Memphis Country Blues Society put on their annual Memphis Country Blues festival which ran from 1965 for 4 years. “We Don’t Know What the Heat Says, But it’s Cool to Dance.”įlickering on the flat screen of the ‘rock room’ is a historic piece of celluloid immortalizing three days and two nights of oppressive
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