Deep Blues

audience Reviews

, 95% Audience Score
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Absolutely essential (you know who you are). On second viewing the goosebumps increased.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Visually lackluster but aurally intoxicating.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Phenomenal performances of the Mississippi Hill Country Blues Bluesmen (and women) in their Natural environs. They truly lived what they wrote about and played, and this film does a wonderful job of incorporating the spooky yet beautiful landscape and lifestyles (steeped in Southern traditions and superstitions) into the background, without taking focus off of the incredible music. R.L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Jack Owens, and "Blind Bud" Spires were among my favorites. They threw away the mold after these guys were made. Most of them are long gone now, but their influence may be heard in today's music and will live on forever. And, oh yeah....Dave Stewart, the guy with Robert Palmer (the other Robert Palmer not the one from ELP) in first 20 minutes of the film? That's Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Some of the earliest blues in the US
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    This movie introduced me to the Delta Blues- and a whole new wonderful world of music that doesn't get its just due.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    A great documentary showing a bunch of unknown blues musicians playing at their homes in rural Mississippi. A must see for anyone that likes blues music.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    superb music from rl burnside jr kimbrough with surreal cameos from stewart what ever the hell he's name is, the guitarist from the Eurythmics... he's really out of place... but he goes away... eventually...
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Essential for any serious student of american blues.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    I didn't know what heartbreak was until I saw Booba playing that guitar with his teeth