Louie Bluie

Louie Bluie (1985)

Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest

75 min★ 7.6 · 997 votes

Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.

Release date
November 13, 1985
Country of origin
United States
Music
Howard Armstrong

Soundtrack

Songs from the movieLouie Bluie1985 · 16 tracks
  1. State Street Rag · Louie Bluie
  2. Nothing In This Wide World For Me · Louie Bluie
  3. That'll Never Happen No More · Louie Bluie
  4. Ted's Stomp · Louie Bluie
  5. My Four Reasons · Louie Bluie
  6. Barushka · Louie Bluie
  7. 38 Pistol Blues · Louie Bluie
  8. Darktown Strutter's Ball · Louie Bluie
  9. When He Calls Me I Will Answer · Louie Bluie
  10. Vine Street Drag · Louie Bluie
  11. My Gal Sal Medley · Louie Bluie
  12. State Street Rag · Louie Bluie
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Cast

Crew