You like to see homos Naked??

Monday, October 27, 2008

One of my main thoughts is that it is showing “real” music. What I mean by real music is that it is music from the heart. It is music that is not created off of capitalism which is known in our society today as popular music, or pop music for short. The artists in this documentary clearly make music from the heart. They make music because they love to make music. These men create their music for richer or poorer. Now there are some mainstream artists with major record deals whom I am sure make music from the heart, but it may be hard to tell who really loves the music versus who is in the music industry to make a buck. But the bluesmen are clearly living in poverty. In the documentary we see them living in rundown houses with tattered clothing; most are of bad physical health. We clearly see that these guys are not rich, but they love to play the blues. They are still spending significant amounts of time on their musical career even though they are not gaining as much monetary wealth. It seems to me that the bluesmen in this documentary do not care about the money side all too much as they care about getting their music heard. They want to share their craft with the world so other people can feel what they feel when they hear the blues. They want to show the world how great of a music genre the blues is. That is the overall theme of the documentary.

One small thought on the documentary is that it is fairly humorous, and I like humor. One of the funniest parts to me is when R.L. Burnside was complaining about losing that small Supplemental Security Income (SSI) check of $111. This man is making a year’s worth of those checks in one concert performance and he is still complaining about it. LOL, ain’t nothing like free money. What was also pretty funny is that these men are real country. I am from the country and I know older people who actually talk like that, and I still haven’t fully gotten used to it. The funniest thing about country people is that they can make up words no one has ever heard before; what’s even funnier is that if you are from the country you will know exactly what they are talking about(link: Scene from Joe Dirt). There were a lot of instances from that.
All in all this is an interesting documentary. I just wish the audio was better so I could understand it more.