I have no idea how accurate this story is, and I really don't care. It's about the music, about the stars, about some really fine acting.
Jeffrey Wright is a standout in an all-star cast as Muddy Waters. Combined with Columbus Short as Little Walter, it was dynamite. But that didn't last.
Adrien Brody was excellent as the man with an idea that would get him out of the junkyard: open a club and start a record label.
A guitar, a song, and soon you were driving Cadillacs and beating off the women.
Eamonn Walker as Howlin' Wolf brought in some more conflict, but that was quickly forgotten when Chuck Berry (Mos Def) hit the air and brought Blacks and Whites together, Oh, but it got really hot when Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles) arrived. Oh, can she sing! The bad part of crossing over on the charts is that it made it easy for white groups like the Beach Boys to take the music and make it their own.
Then came Elvis and Black Power, and the world was changing.
Jeffrey Wright is a standout in an all-star cast as Muddy Waters. Combined with Columbus Short as Little Walter, it was dynamite. But that didn't last.
Adrien Brody was excellent as the man with an idea that would get him out of the junkyard: open a club and start a record label.
A guitar, a song, and soon you were driving Cadillacs and beating off the women.
Eamonn Walker as Howlin' Wolf brought in some more conflict, but that was quickly forgotten when Chuck Berry (Mos Def) hit the air and brought Blacks and Whites together, Oh, but it got really hot when Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles) arrived. Oh, can she sing! The bad part of crossing over on the charts is that it made it easy for white groups like the Beach Boys to take the music and make it their own.
Then came Elvis and Black Power, and the world was changing.