Louie Bluie

Louie Bluie

60 mins | Documentary, Music | Nov. 13, 1985

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.

Louie Bluie

60 mins | Documentary, Music | Nov. 13, 1985

Louie Bluie
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Superior
Original title Louie Bluie
Directors Terry Zwigoff
Writers

Cast

Howard Armstrong

as Himself

Ted Bogan

as Himself

Jay Lynch

as Himself

Yank Rachell

as Himself

Ikey Robinson

as Himself