About me: I am an actor and writer who has a love affair with the Blues. Research for this screenplay took me from the libraries of NYC to the juke joints of Mississippi. Like all great art, created by the common man, the Blues was sung to transform suffering and confusion into clarity and beauty; to stay sane in the face of soul numbing brutality. From that bedrock the Blues made itself the cornerstone of all modern music. Taking this screenplay to the screen is my bid to bottle just a little bit of magic from this musical forefather: the Blues. I hope you will join me.
Synopsis:
With a father lynched for raping a white woman and a mother dead from heartbreak, tragedy drove Samuel House into the arms of the Blues at an early age. Love and anger fueled his legendary status as a local Blues hero. In the South, in 1962 troubles abound and Samuel’s fortunes change for the better and worse. While a Chicago club owner auditions him for stardom, Samuel discovers that his girlfriend is pregnant. To fuel the fire, she is white. Determined to escape his father’s fate, Samuel digs deep to knock the club owner dead with his only ticket out of the south: The Blues.
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KEITH RICHARDS ON THE BLUES: The blues are probably the most important thing that America has ever given to the world. From Leadbelly to B.B. King to Buddy Guy and all the stops in between - it’s just such an amazingly flexible form. It’s a musical form that just seems to be inexhaustible in it’s potential. It speaks so deeply because we all probably come from Africa; we just went north and turned white. But if you cut anybody open, bone is white and blood is red. It’s kind of deep, you know. And I think maybe the blues speak to us in that way: ancient bone marrow responding to the source.
