SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES - WARMING BY THE DEVILS FIRE (2003)

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Plot

Charles Burnett's contribution to this excellent series of music documentaries focuses on his own past and his obsession with the blues from an early age. Intoxicated by the taboo nature of the music (the title refers to his mothers assertion that it was 'the devil's music'), Burnett's creative account of his childhood mixes fictional storytelling with documentary footage of bluesmen. "I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content but also attitudes to the form itself. In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues" Charles Burnett.