The Land Where the Blues Began
1979 · 58 MIN · IMDB 8.4 · 23 VOTES · DIR. Alan Lomax
Overview
An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in 1978 by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television and broadcast on PBS in 1980. This re-release in 2009 includes two hours of additional music.
Dialogue Timeline — 577 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, children and chaps
00:03:59 you pulls it down
00:09:55 Early in the morning coming back home
00:12:49 ain't been to town hardly.
00:14:42 Lord stay right here baby gal 'til you drag me
00:16:39 farmed 12 years.
00:19:12 They put them out then
00:21:39 l play that guitar hard and sing hard.
00:24:09 Hang it up on the line
00:26:00 you have your mind direct on how she done treated you.
00:28:30 and that singing gives you pep to work.
00:30:01 Good Lord, have mercy
00:31:33 You go down in them quarters
00:34:00 just stepping with me.
00:35:15 They'd ride right in the middle of the pit
00:36:21 it was just like the penitentiary.
00:38:15 Killed that old grey mule
00:42:24 We broke this county jail.
00:44:17 They got me accused of taxes
00:46:47 ''Two suns can shine together.''
00:49:30 lf the spirit say pray,you ought'a pray oh Lord
00:51:57 They had to look to America for to get supplies
00:53:08 Well, back in the jungle it woods deep
00:54:28 Just to run into that monkey with some more of his signifying jive.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed577
Dialogue density9.9 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:54:28
Production Record
DirectorAlan Lomax
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes23