[Harp-L] keeping the blues alive award receipient

[icemanle@xxxxxxx]

Visual Broadcast: Film, Television and Video, Pocket Full of Soul
Everyone in the blues has a journey to talk about. For director MarcLempert and producer Todd Slobin that journey centered around theharmonica, a staple of the blues. Their journey - more like an odyssey- took them deep inside the instrument, its players, and its culture.They, like others who have embraced the harmonica and made it a part oftheir lives, soon discovered the power and mystery of the instrument.Since the harmonica is the only instrument where one has to breathe inand out to produce sound, it forms an undeniable connection to theplayer as it captures the body and spirit of each individual who putsit to his mouth. With Huey Lewis as the narrator, the film travels theworld to illustrate the instrument's history, ubiquity, and presentimpact. The interviews, stories, how-tos, and performances by masterssuch as James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, John Popper, Magic Dick, LeeOskar, Rick Estrin, Delbert McClinton, Jerry Portnoy, Kim Wilson, andJason Ricci are thrilling enough to get you to find that old MarineBand and start drawin' some blues riff on the reeds.