{{Infobox film | name = Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Robert Mugge | producer = | writer = Robert Palmer | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Roosevelt Barnes|R. L. Burnside|Jessie Mae Hemphill|Big Jack Johnson|Junior Kimbrough|Booker T. Laury|Jack Owens|Lonnie Pitchford|Bud Spires}} | music = | cinematography = Erich Roland | editing = Robert Mugge | distributor = Tara Releasing | released = {{Film date|1992|4|1|df=yes}} | runtime = 91 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads''''' is a British documentary film, released in 1991, and made by music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge, in collaboration with David A. Stewart and his brother John J. Stewart. The film provided insight into the location, cast and characteristics of Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues. Filming took place in 1990 in Memphis, Tennessee, and various North Mississippi counties.<ref name="mnbrev">{{Cite web|url = http://www.mnblues.com/review/deepblues-mh7-00.html|title = Deep Blues review - the movie (DVD)|date = 2000|website = |publisher = Blues on Stage|last = Halverson|first = Mark}}</ref> Theatrical release was in 1991 and home video release in the United Kingdom, the next year, as was a soundtrack album. A United States consumer edition came in 2000.<ref name="billbo2000">{{cite news |title= WinStar brings back 'Deep Blues'|newspaper=Billboard |date=2000-01-08 |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kw0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11 |author= Bradley Bambarger}}</ref>
Stewart initiated and financed the project, inspired by Palmer's 1981 book of the same name. Palmer provided many of the insights into the background and history of the blues, as a guide to Stewart and the film narrator.<ref name="mnbrev"/><ref name="sinclair int">{{cite web |url=http://www.johnsinclair.us/columns-and-reviews/20-features/737-robert-palmer-site-specific-music.html |title=Robert Palmer: Site-Specific Music |newspaper=Johnsinclair.us |date=1993 |author=John Sinclair |authorlink=John Sinclair (poet) |access-date=June 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626115315/http://www.johnsinclair.us/columns-and-reviews/20-features/737-robert-palmer-site-specific-music.html |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Musicians== Musicians appearing in the film are:<ref name="mnbrev"/> Roosevelt Barnes, R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill (with Napoleon Strickland and Abe Young), Big Jack Johnson, Junior Kimbrough (with Little Joe Ayers and Calvin Jackson), Booker T. Laury, Jack Owens, Lonnie Pitchford, Bud Spires and Wade Walton,<ref name="mnbrev"/><ref name="Cheseborough2008">{{cite book|author=Steve Cheseborough |title=Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBWRY90sphQC&pg=PA92 |year=2008 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-60473-328-0 |page=92}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|0101697|Deep Blues}}</ref> The film revitalized the recording career of some of the musicians.<ref name="billbo2000"/>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0101697|Deep Blues}}
Category:Documentary films about blues music and musicians Category:1991 films Category:1991 English-language films Category:English-language documentary films
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