Louie Bluie
Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest
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.
- Year: 1985
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Studio: Superior
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- Director: Terry Zwigoff
- Cast: Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Jay Lynch, Yank Rachell, Ikey Robinson