Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads

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Deep Blues: A Musical
Pilgrimage to the Crossroads
Directed by Robert Mugge
Written by Robert Palmer
Starring Roosevelt Barnes
R. L. Burnside
Jessie Mae Hemphill
Big Jack Johnson
Junior Kimbrough
Booker T. Laury
Jack Owens
Lonnie Pitchford
Bud Spires
Cinematography Erich Roland
Editing by Robert Mugge
Distributed by Tara Releasing
Release date(s) 1992-04-01
Running time 91 min.
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David A. Stewart in conjunction with his brother John J. Stewart and in collaboration with music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge made the documentary film Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads released in 1991. The film provides insight into the: location, cast and characteristics of the Delta Blues music. The documentary locations were set in: Memphis, TN and various North Mississippi counties. Robert Palmer provided many of the keen insights into the background and history of blues music as narrator of the story of the Mississippi blues.

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