Louie Bluie

Name: Louie Bluie
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1985
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 7.615

1985 · 60 min

Documentary · Music

★ 7.6

Criterion

Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.

Crew

Director Terry Zwigoff

Cast

H
Howard Armstrong
Himself
T
Ted Bogan
Himself
J
Jay Lynch
Himself
Y
Yank Rachell
Himself
I
Ikey Robinson
Himself

Crew

Director — Terry Zwigoff

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