The Blues: Feel Like Going Home

USA 2003, 80 minutes
Dir. Martin Scorsese
Rating: [G]
Genres: Documentary, Music / Jazz & Blues

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

In this episode, dir. Scorcese journeys to the Deep South to talk with musicians like Willie King, Corey Harris, Taj Mahal and Otha Turner. He then follows Harris to Mali in Africa to compare musical styles with guitarist Ali Farka Toure.

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5 stars (Exceptional) Great documentary on blues origins. Scorcese focuses on Son House, Muddy Waters & Hooker; plus Robert Johnson, Otha Turner & their African roots. Old-style blues of Mississippi small-holders differed from Delta cotton-field blues, which migrated north. ~Sandy