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Louie Bluie (1985)

Louie Bluie (1985)

Music Documentary

Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest

Release Date: 1985, November 13
Directors: Terry Zwigoff
Countries: United States of America
Production: Superior, Superior
Cast: Jay Lynch, Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Yank Rachell, Ikey Robinson

Overview:

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.