A film shot in (2014 and 2015) about the last remaining raw bluesmen from Mississippi and Tennessee.
STARRING:
Robert Bilbo Walker
Raymond Pat Thomas
Watermelon Slim
Super Chikan
Bill Abel
Deak Harp
Vince Johnson
Sonny Mack
'Blues Before Sunrise' is a snapshot of a place stuck in time which captures a few of the remaining authentic, rugged Delta Blues men and their intensely personal and powerful music.
Five friends from the United Kingdom set out on a journey to seek the source of our passion for Delta Blues. Our trip took us to the deep south of the United States. As strangers to this land, we found truth in southern hospitality.
Embraced by eight rugged Delta Blues men and their communities, we soaked in the authenticity and power of their music and raw indescribable talent.
Their roots lead directly back to Robert Johnson, Howl’n Wolf, Muddy Waters, and a time when pick’n cotton under the radiating heat of the southern United States sky birthed what we now call the blues.
The film is shot without a presenter, the narrative is told entirely through the experiences and stories of each legend interjected only with shots of the landscape.
Whether using four-string diddley-bows made of recycled tool boxes, or a harmonica picked from a box littered with old dusty and worn down pieces of metal, the humanity and passion of the music encompasses the milky, raw, and organic sounds that changed the world forever.