THE BLUES UNDER THE SKIN

Runtime: 88 minutes

Producers: Claude Fléouter

Directors: Roviros Manthouli

Actors: Onike Lee, Roland Sanchez, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mance Lipscomb, Bukka White, and Roosevelt Sykes

Website: https://kinolorber.com/film/blues-under-the-skin

In the early 1970s, director Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Deep South to film interviews/performances by legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Mance Lipscomb, Bukka White, Robert Pete Williams & Roosevelt Sykes. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, this film (virtually unseen in the U.S.) dramatizes the tumultuous relationship of a young couple as they struggle to overcome barriers of poverty and prejudice. "A thrilling rediscovery and untapped treasury of musical performances."