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.