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The road to Memphis /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CVD 55935 | Columbia Music VideoSeries: Blues, a musical journey ; 3.Publisher: New York : Sony Music Entertainment : Manufactured by Columbia Music Video, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black and white with color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9780738903835
  • 0738903833
  • 9780738903897
  • 0738903892
Other title:
  • Martin Scorsese presents The Blues. Road to Memphis
  • Blues. Road to Memphis
Uniform titles:
  • Martin Scorsese presents The blues (Television program). Selections.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 781.643 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3521 .R63 2003x
Online resources:
Contents:
Title (Performer): Beale Street ain't Beale Street no more (Rev. Gatemouth Moore) -- Dust my broom (Elmore James) -- Three o'clock blues (B.B. King) -- How many more years (Howlin' Wolf) -- Moanin' at midnight (Howlin' Wolf) -- Rosco's boogie (Rosco Gordon) -- Mystery train (Little Junior's Blue Flames) -- Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston) -- Precious Lord (B.B. King) -- Hoochie man (Bobby Rush) -- Done got old (Robert Belfour) -- Hen pecked (Bobby Rush) -- Medley: Stand still, stay right here ; Dance for the devil (Rev. Charles E. Polk & the St. Luther Choir) -- I pity the fool (Bobby Bland) -- Bring it on home (Sonny Boy Williamson) -- Killing floor (Hubert Sumlin & David Johansen) -- Now you're gone (Rosco Gordon).
Production credits:
  • Editor, Charlton McMillan ; music, Mark Adler, Bobby Rush ; executive producer Martin Scorsese, Paul G. Allen, Jody Patton and Ulrich Felsberg.
Featured performers: B.B. King, Bobby Rush, Rosco Gordon, Hubert Sumlin, David Johansen, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Gatemouth Moore, Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and others.Summary: Traces the musical odyssey of B.B. King to Memphis and pays homage to the great blues musicians of the Memphis tradition. Goes on the road and behind the scenes with Bobby Rush and Rosco Gordon. Filmed on the occasion of the great reunion in which Memphis musicians returned to honor their roots.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1214 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050123551

Produced for television in 2003.

Third film in a seven-part series.

Series produced by Vulcan Productions and Road Movies Production in association with Cappa Productions & Jigsaw Productions ; originally produced for PBS and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; presented by WGBH Boston to PBS.

Contains full-length performances not seen in the film: Blues boys tune / B.B. King -- Key to the highway / B.B. King -- Smokestack lightning / Hubert Sumlin and David Johansen.

Title (Performer): Beale Street ain't Beale Street no more (Rev. Gatemouth Moore) -- Dust my broom (Elmore James) -- Three o'clock blues (B.B. King) -- How many more years (Howlin' Wolf) -- Moanin' at midnight (Howlin' Wolf) -- Rosco's boogie (Rosco Gordon) -- Mystery train (Little Junior's Blue Flames) -- Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston) -- Precious Lord (B.B. King) -- Hoochie man (Bobby Rush) -- Done got old (Robert Belfour) -- Hen pecked (Bobby Rush) -- Medley: Stand still, stay right here ; Dance for the devil (Rev. Charles E. Polk & the St. Luther Choir) -- I pity the fool (Bobby Bland) -- Bring it on home (Sonny Boy Williamson) -- Killing floor (Hubert Sumlin & David Johansen) -- Now you're gone (Rosco Gordon).

DVD, 5.1 surround sound.

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