Toot Blues

Synopsis

In the late 1980s, Tim Duffy, a penniless North Carolina musicology student, became deeply involved in Winston-Salem's drinkhouse music scene, an off-the-grid hotbed of gritty traditional blues. He began the foundation after observing and living with the deep poverty of the Southern blues artists he befriended and championed.The foundation now helps hundreds of older Southern musicians with everything from financial assistance to tour support. The film travels back to the early artists that were the inspiration for Music Maker, and forward to the current artists carrying on the Southern roots tradition. The film features performances, archival and contemporary, of Music Maker artists on tour and in the studio, as well as interviews with the artists and Duffy on the foundation, music and the blues.

Main Cast

Timothy Duffy

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Adolphus Bell

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Denise Duffy

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Essie Mae Brooks

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Willa Mae Buckner

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Chris Johnstone
Production	Producer	Chris Johnstone
Editing	Editor	Chris Johnstone
Crew	Cinematography	Anna Ferrarie
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