This collaboration between the documentary maker Robert Mugge and the music critic RobertPalmer (who wrote the sweeping, inclusive 1981 history of the same name), is a lovably rough-hewn presentation of rural blues today.
This documentary by Augusta Palmer, about her father the rock critic RobertPalmer, who died in 1997, at the age of fifty-two is anchored by his devotion to the Master Musicians of Jajouka, a legendary group of Sufi trance musicians who were famously associated with Beat writers (including William S. Burroughs) and such rock acts as the Rolling Stones.