Louie Bluie

7.6

/10

1h 0mDocumentary Music Musical

Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in Am... Read more

Starring Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Jay Lynch, Yank Rachell, Ikey Robinson

Watch "Louie Bluie" from streaming services Apple TV+ (itunes), Criterion Channel released in 1985. It's a documentary and music movie, and has a rating of 7.6 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.