The Blues Collection: The Soul Of A Man
In The Soul of A Man, Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence, rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James “Blood†Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett. "These songs meant the world to me. I felt there was more truth in them than in any book I had read about America, or in any movie I had ever seen. I've tried to describe, more like a poem than in a 'documentary,' what moved me so much in their songs and voices." - Wim Wenders
Year: 2003
Genre: Music Capsule
Country: USA
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Blind Willie Johnson, Shemekia Copeland, Los Lobos, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Skip James
Duration: 100 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains offensive language.
Location in store: Music Capsule
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