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New Orleans Film Society

Living the Blues

Originally screened October 14, 2008

USA 40 min.

Director
Larry Banks, Tim Duffy

Synopsis

An intimate visit with nine elder blues artists who have kept a musical tradition alive. These men and women have experienced the transition from the old South to the new. They have worked as sharecroppers and laborers in the factories and fields of the American South. Their stories define how the gift for musical expression can sustain anyone through the hardest of times.