Toot Blues (2008)
They told him the blues was dead, so Tim Duffy set out to record the music and ended up with the musicians themselves.
74 min
In the late 1980s, Tim Duffy, a penniless North Carolina musicology student, became deeply involved in Winston-Salem's drinkhouse music scene, an off-the-grid hotbed of gritty traditional blues. He began the foundation after observing and living with the deep poverty of the Southern blues artists he befriended and championed.The foundation now helps hundreds of older Southern musicians with everything from financial assistance to tour support. The film travels back to the early artists that were the inspiration for Music Maker, and forward to the current artists carrying on the Southern roots tradition. The film features performances, archival and contemporary, of Music Maker artists on tour and in the studio, as well as interviews with the artists and Duffy on the foundation, music and the blues.
- Release date
- October 15, 2008
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $25
Trailer
Cast
- Adolphus Bell as Self
- Essie Mae Brooks as Self
- Willa Mae Buckner as Self
- Denise Duffy as Self
- Timothy Duffy as Self
- Cool John Ferguson as Self
- Guitar Gabriel as Self
- James Goins as Self
- Marie Goins as Self
- Boo Hanks as Self
Crew
- Chris Johnstone · Director
- Chris Johnstone · Producer
- Anna Ferrarie · Cinematographer
- Chris Johnstone · Editor