David Hoffman | Why BB King Sang The BLUES. "Life Is The Blues" @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
The Mississippi Delta Blues. It's the home of BB King blues. This place has a very deep understanding of feeling blue and of expressing the blues. A wonderful style of blues music was born in this place and folks outside of the region began to hear it just a few years before this Incredible documentary, done right in the heart of the Delta, was recorded. It was made by one of my favorite 16mm documentary filmmakers, William Ferris with whom I have done a documentary interview that is quite extraordinary and filled with clips from his films.
youtu.be/HsMobpl2Sr4.
Ferris took a camera and a sound rig and went to places “in his neighborhood” and most folks said yes to his recording stories and music and culture that was and is, beautiful & unique. Those of you who have seen some of my work know of my 16mm 1972 documentary recorded with BB King at Sing Sing Prison in New York State. William Ferris also recorded an incredible documentary with BB King at just about the same time.
If you want to reach out to William Ferris or to see more of his films, you can contact him directly at folkstreams.net/filmmakers/ferris-bill.
If you found this clip of meaning to you, please click the Thanks button below the screen on the right side to support my efforts to present more clips like this one.
The Mississippi Delta Blues. It's the home of BB King blues. This place has a very deep understanding of feeling blue and of expressing the blues. A wonderful style of blues music was born in this place and folks outside of the region began to hear it just a few years before this Incredible documentary, done right in the heart of the Delta, was recorded. It was made by one of my favorite 16mm documentary filmmakers, William Ferris with whom I have done a documentary interview that is quite extraordinary and filled with clips from his films.
youtu.be/HsMobpl2Sr4.
Ferris took a camera and a sound rig and went to places “in his neighborhood” and most folks said yes to his recording stories and music and culture that was and is, beautiful & unique. Those of you who have seen some of my work know of my 16mm 1972 documentary recorded with BB King at Sing Sing Prison in New York State. William Ferris also recorded an incredible documentary with BB King at just about the same time.
If you want to reach out to William Ferris or to see more of his films, you can contact him directly at folkstreams.net/filmmakers/ferris-bill.
If you found this clip of meaning to you, please click the Thanks button below the screen on the right side to support my efforts to present more clips like this one.
