Title: LAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI JUKES

ID: 1689_001
Date: 2000s
Color: color
Sound: sound
Video format: digibeta
License: Rights Managed
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An 86-minute film chronicling the final days of Jimmy King’s legendary Subway Lounge in Jackson, Mississippi and the early days of Morgan Freeman’s and Bill Luckett’s Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It also looks at the Summers Hotel, which housed the Subway and was the first hotel in the region to accept African American guests. Features performances by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Bobby Rush, Chris Thomas King, Vasti Jackson, Patrice Moncell, Eddie Cotton, Abdul Rasheed, Levon Lindsey & J.T. Watkins, and more. “American roots music at its most soulful and authentic.” - Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix Please contact footage@globalimageworks.com for licensing or a screener of the entire film.

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mugge, robert mugge

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