The Blues Society | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations  | dG1fVHJuYkxhbEFPVDg

Transcript

00:00This city has one of the richest histories of any music city in the world.

00:19These men were geniuses.

00:22They were American heroes.

00:25A great big hand for the Bob Keys!

00:31Between that hash and my $65, we put on the first Memphis Country Blues Festival.

00:36And people came from Europe, from all over the country.

00:40Mick Jagger wants to talk to you on the telephone.

00:43The Goodyear blimp was coming overhead and PBS was filming.

00:49Just before the festival, an imperial grand wizard from the Ku Klux Klan held a rally.

00:58One of my great uncles was actually killed by a white man.

01:03These things are very real to me.

01:06We love this music and we went there to promote this music.

01:09There is always a disconnect in the deep context of the music.

01:16Which is violence and pain and hurt.

01:21In 1969 it would be difficult to maintain that melancholia and the ability to express it musically

01:28is the exclusive property of the black man.

01:35It's ours. It's ours. It's our legacy.

01:40See what happens now.