Film · 1985 · 1h

Louie Bluie

Name: Louie Bluie
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1985-11-13
Duration: 1 h
Cast: Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Jay Lynch, Yank Rachell, Ikey Robinson

Documentary Music

★ 7.7/10 · 14 votes on TMDB

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Synopsis

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.