Acclaimed “King of the Music Documentary” Robert Mugge takes his audience on a rollicking ride through Louisiana’s musical backwater bayous. Regional experts guide this trip from historic concert halls to po’boy joints, blues dives, zydeco clubs, gospel churches and intimate family gatherings, a process that allows Mugge and his crew to capture music in all four corners of the state – arguably the first time this has even been attempted, much less accomplished.
DIRECTED BY ROBERT MUGGE
UNITED STATES | 2000 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Renowned music documentarian Robert Mugge dives into the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and documents the attempts, in the mid-1990s, to name a new “king of zydeco.” The original self-proclaimed “king” was the great Clifton Chenier who did more than anyone to develop zydeco’s mus...