Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads
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) 1 April 1992 (1992-04-01)
Running time 91 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads is a documentary film, released in 1992, and made by David A. Stewart in conjunction with his brother John J. Stewart, in collaboration with music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge. The film provided insight into the location, cast and characteristics of Delta blues. The documentary locations were set in Memphis, Tennessee, and various North Mississippi counties. Palmer provided many of the insights into the background and history of the blues, as narrator of the story of the Mississippi blues.[citation needed]

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