Toot Blues (2008)

Toot Blues

In the late 1980s, Tim Duffy, a penniless North Carolina musicology student, became deeply involved in Winston-Salem's drinkhouse music scene, an off-the-grid hotbed of gritty traditional blues. He began the foundation after observing and living with the deep poverty of the Southern blues artists he befriended and championed.The foundation now helps hundreds of older Southern musicians with everything from financial assistance to tour support. The film travels back to the early artists that were the inspiration for Music Maker, and forward to the current artists carrying on the Southern roots tradition. The film features performances, archival and contemporary, of Music Maker artists on tour and in the studio, as well as interviews with the artists and Duffy on the foundation, music and the blues.

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Timothy Duffy
as Himself

Adolphus Bell
as Himself

Denise Duffy
as Herself

Essie Mae Brooks
as Herself

Willa Mae Buckner
as Herself

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Chris Johnstone
Director

Chris Johnstone
Producer

Chris Johnstone
Editor

Anna Ferrarie
Cinematography

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