Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970)
This film by John Jeremy grew from photographs and field recordings made by Paul Oliver on a journey through the South in 1960. Oliver, a British architectural historian who devoted years to researching African American blues, memorialized the journey also in his 1963 book Conversation with the Blues. The film includes the voices and music of Blind James Brewer, James “Butch” Cage, Gus Cannon, Walter Davis, Blind Arvella Gray, Sam “Lightnin” Hopkins, James “Stump” Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, J. B. Lenoir, Charles Love, “Little Brother” Montgomery, James Oden, Edwin Buster Pickens, Sam Price, Robert Curtis Smith, Otis Span, Willie Thomas, Henry Townsend, Wade Walton, and others unidentified.
The movie Blues Like Showers of Rain, released in 1970, features 13 songs from artists like Gus Cannon, J.B. Lenoir, Willie Thomas, James Butch Cage & Grandson and Little Brother Montgomery. What is your favorite song from Blues Like Showers of Rain?
Songs from Blues Like Showers of Rain
- My Money Never Runs Out
- Gus Cannon
- It Hurts Me So Bad
- J.B. Lenoir
- Little Red Rooster
- Willie Thomas, James Butch Cage & Grandson
- Trembling Blues
- Little Brother Montgomery
- I Feel Like Singing the Blues
- J.B. Lenoir
- Take a Little Walk with Me
- Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood
- Barbershop Rhythm
- Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
- People Call Me Lucky
- Otis Spann
- Penitentiary Blues
- Willie Thomas & James Butch Cage
- Prison Bound
- Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood Jr. (as Robert Lockwood)
- Stand by Me
- J.B. Lenoir
- Kill That Nigger Dead
- Willie Thomas & James Butch Cage
- Blues
- Robert Curtis Smith
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