An excellent Mississippi Blues documentary featuring Fat Possum artists R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough (my favorite), along with a good fife and drum group, and others. I had a bad VHS dub of this in the 90s, which I used to watch a lot. Author Robert Palmer hosts— worth it to seek out his book Deep Blues, too. You’ll just have to mentally block out the many goofy shots of the Eurythmics guy…
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