Bonnie Blue: James Cotton's Life in the Blues

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Bonnie Blue: James Cotton's Life in the Blues is an emotionally evocative feature documentary that portrays the untold story of James Cotton, a legend whose musical influence shaped the Chicago Blues style having been mentored with the originators of the Delta blues tradition. Cotton's life tracks a swath of America's history -- from the post-depression cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta to tough Chicagoland's era of brilliant artistic reinvention to today's live music scene in Austin, Texas. In between are tours with Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield and sessions with the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Steve Miller, B.B. King and many more. This new film capture's America's soul as the blues becomes interpreted in jazz, big band, rock and roll, punk, hip-hop and rap.

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Documentary
1 hr. 26 min.

director

Bestor Cram

writer

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synopsis

Bonnie Blue: James Cotton's Life in the Blues is an emotionally evocative feature documentary that portrays the untold story of James Cotton, a legend whose musical influence shaped the Chicago Blues style having been mentored with the originators of the Delta blues tradition. Cotton's life tracks a swath of America's history -- from the post-depression cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta to tough Chicagoland's era of brilliant artistic reinvention to today's live music scene in Austin, Texas. In between are tours with Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield and sessions with the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Steve Miller, B.B. King and many more. This new film capture's America's soul as the blues becomes interpreted in jazz, big band, rock and roll, punk, hip-hop and rap.

details

Documentary
1 hr. 26 min.

director

Bestor Cram

writer