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In 1960, a group of white teenage Chicago musicians traveled to the city's southside music clubs to learn the blues from the original masters. This is their story.

Shot over two nights in May 2006 at San Francisco's venerable Warfield Theater, this concert film presents founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh leading his own band reinterpreting choice songs from the Dead's songbook. For these shows Lesh's band included guitarists John Scofield (a veteran of Miles Davis' band), Larry Campbell (ten years on the road with Bob Dylan), Grammy winning vocalist Joan Osborne, jazz saxophonist Greg Osby, and longtime Phil Lesh & Friends band members Rob Barraco on keyboards and John Molo on drums.

The making of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jorma Kaukonen's country blues debut album for Columbia Records is documented in this documentary film. Shot on location in January 2002 at MasterLink Studios in Nashville, the sessions feature performances by some of Nashvilles best acoustic music players, including Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush and special guest Bela Fleck.