Two Bluesmen

Description

16mm films that show two musicians and their surroundings that influenced their work.

Bluesmaker (1969)
Shows Mississippi blues singer Fred McDowell singing and talking about his blues. Includes scenes of the area which helped shape his music.

Blind Gary Davis (1964)
A view of blind folk singer Gary Davis and the world which he lived. Shows the interior of his room and the streets of Harlem as a background for the soundtrack and his final song “Death Don’t Have No Mercy.”