ALABAMA BLACKBELT BLUES

                

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                   Alabama Blackbelt Blues: 

Alabama Black Belt Blues is the first film in a new series, Alabama StoryMakers, from Alabama Public Television.

Alabama Black Belt Blues is the first film in a new series, Alabama StoryMakers, from Alabama Public Television.

Alabama’s blues tradition, centered in its fertile Black Belt, is more rural than the well-known Mississippi Delta blues and in some sense closer to the original source. What is known as the blues developed out of the slave culture of the 19th century and lives on today in the impoverished yet culturally rich Alabama Black Belt. The work of John and Alan Lomax along with Pickens County native Ruby Pickens Tartt during the 1930s and 40s brought Alabama’s Black Belt blues music to the fore with their recordings of Vera Hall, Dock Reed, Rich Amerson and a host of other singers, some previously unknown. As the film will demonstrate, Alabama’s Black Blues tradition is still strong today.

Alabama Black Belt Blues uses slave narratives, archival blues recordings and the recorded music of contemporary African American blues musicians to explore the role this music has played in the region from slavery onward. From cotton fields, to church pews, to prison spaces, to juke joints rural and urban, the film follows the refrain of the region’s blues through the cultural landscapes of Alabama, yesterday and today.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Robert (Bob) Clem, is an Alabama native, graduate of Birmingham-Southern College, and graduate of New York University’s graduate film school. His most recent feature film, How They Got Over: Gospel Quartets and the Road to Rock ‘n Roll has won multiple awards and appeared in 26 film festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the U.S. and screened at both the Grammy Museum in Los Angelos and the County Music Hall of Fame. Big Jim Folsom: The Two Faces of Populism (1997); William March/Company K (2004); John Patterson: In the Wake of the Assassins (2007); Eugene Walter: Last of the Bohemians (2008); Malbis Plantation: Greece to America (2009); The Jefferson County Sound (2012); The Passion of Miss Augusta (2016); and The Two Worlds of William March (2017). A sample of his work as an ethnographic cinematographer in West Africa can be seen in Mali in Five Minutes (2010).

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