Louie Bluie.

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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 wild...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Kanopy films.
Corporate Author:	Kanopy (Firm)
Other Authors:	Zwigoff, Terry (Film director)
Language:	English
Published:	[place of publication not identified] : Criterion Collection/Janus Films, 1985.
Series:	Kanopy films.
Subjects:	Armstrong, Howard, > 1909-2003. Documentary films > United States. Blues musicians > United States. Country musicians > United States. Feature films. Documentary films.
Genre:	Documentary films Feature films. Documentary films.
Online Access:	Connect to: A Kanopy streaming video - MSU authorized users (kanopy) Connect to: Cover Image - MSU authorized users
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Format:	Electronic Video

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Summary:	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.
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