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    Born in Chicago

    Directed by Bob Sarles, John Anderson
    USA | 77 minutes | Sound Track – Music on Film

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    Born in Chicago

    Directed by Bob Sarles, John Anderson
    USA | 77 minutes | Sound Track – Music on Film

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    Born in Chicago

    Directed by Bob Sarles, John Anderson
    USA | 77 minutes | Sound Track – Music on Film

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    Born in Chicago

    Directed by Bob Sarles, John Anderson
    USA | 77 minutes | Sound Track – Music on Film

This joyous musical celebration of the Chicago blues hones in on the moment in the early 1960s when blues-besotted white teenagers Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield and Barry Goldberg learned at the feet of their idols Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King and Buddy Guy, and helped ignite a blues explosion that changed the face of popular music.

film synopsis

The blues may have been born in the Deep South, but it came of age in the Black clubs of Chicago’s South Side where such legends as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King and Buddy Guy reigned. Then, in the 1960s, white blues-besotted teenagers Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield and Barry Goldberg learned at the feet of their idols and brought the blues to the North Side, igniting a blues explosion that changed the face of popular music and resurrected the careers of their mentors. The joyous Born in Chicago, narrated by Dan Aykroyd, is a music-drenched celebration of this great American art form, featuring a treasure trove of archival footage that includes the likes of Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson and Willie Dixon, and interviews with Charlie Musselwhite, Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, Steve Miller, Elvin Bishop and Bob Dylan, who called Bloomfield the best guitarist he’d ever heard.

film details

Director: Bob Sarles, John Anderson
Producers: Barry Goldberg, Joel Selvin
Screenwriter: Joel Selvin
Cinematographers: Aaron Hui
Editor: Bob Sarles
Music: Jimmy Vivino, Barry Goldberg
Cast: Barry Goldberg, Nick Gravenites, Harvey Mandel, Sam Lay, Charlie Musselwhite, Elvin Bishop, Keith Richards, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana, Bob Weir, Bob Dylan
Country: USA
Language: In English.
Year: 2020
Running Time: 77 minutes
Director Filmography: Bob Sarles | Bang! The Bert Berns Story (2016), Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield (2013)
John Anderson | Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story (2017), Joey Molland: Liverpool to Memphis (2013)
Primary Company: Ravin’ Films, Inc.
Contact Email: bsarles@aol.com

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