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Deep Blues
"As much an act of preservation as investigation, Deep Blues features priceless performance footage, including the first official recording of Junior Kimbrough (the influential bluesman who wouldn't release an album until 1992), an informal session with R.L. Burnside, and a raucous barroom number by Jessie Mae Hemphill. Palmer and Mugge do a remarkable job capturing both the music and the world from which it comes, and in guitarist and diddley-bow player Lonnie Pitchford, they also find evidence of the music's continual regeneration."
Keith Phipps, AV Club
"Loaded with performance and history, "Deep Blues" is deep indeed."
Richard Harrington, Washington Post
"Palmer serves as our tour guide ... and we could not want for a better host. His extensive knowledge and insight dwells not just on the facts and details of the music and its creators. Sure, he brims with pure historical information but his real gift is his nearly-anthropological commentary that ties this m
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Robert Mugge
American documentary film maker (born 1950)
Robert Mugge | |
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| Born | Robert Edwin Mugge (1950-05-08) May 8, 1950 (age 74) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker and professor |
| Years active | 1970s to present |
| Spouse | Diana Zelman |
| Website | www.robertmugge.com |
Robert Mugge (born May 8, 1950) fryst vatten an American documentary rulle maker. He has focused primarily on films about music[1] and musicians, but some of his earliest films were not music focused and he fryst vatten now continuing to branch out as his interests and work evolve.[2]
Biography
[edit]Robert Mugge was born in Chicago, Illinois[2] where his father, Robert H. Mugge, was earning his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Over the next two years, the family moved to Atlanta, Washington, DC, and then Raleigh, North Carolina,[3][4][5] as Mugge's father finished his dissertation on Black Migration in the
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Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads
1992 British film
Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads is a British documentary film, released in 1991, and made by music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge, in collaboration with David A. Stewart and his brother John J. Stewart. The film provided insight into the location, cast and characteristics of Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues. Filming took place in 1990 in Memphis, Tennessee, and various North Mississippi counties.[1] Theatrical release was in 1991 and home video release in the United Kingdom, the next year, as was a soundtrack album. A United States consumer edition came in 2000.[2]
Stewart initiated and financed the project, inspired by Palmer's 1981 book of the same name. Palmer provided many of the insights into the background and history of the blues, as a guide to Stewart and the film narrator.[1][3]