Lightning In a Bottle
Category: Self-help
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Self-help
Clarence Gatemouth Brown (Actor), Buddy Guy (Actor), Part concert, part history lesson, part summit meeting, and all blues, Lightning in a Bottle puts a bright spotlight on this quintessential American music. There are some heavy hitters at work here, both behind the camera (Martin Scorsese executive produced, while the film was directed by Antoine Fuqua of Training Day and King Arthur) and especially in front of it, with a superb house band and a mind-boggling array of musicians (including B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Aerosmiths Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Solomon Burke, Keb Mo, Macy Gray, the Neville Brothers, Robert Cray, and John Fogerty, to name but a few) performing at New Yorks Radio City Music Hall in February, 2003. The idea was to trace the music from its beginnings; thus we get an African song (by Angelique Kidjo), some early gospel blues (the great Mavis Staples), acoustic Delta blues, and so on, right up to blues-drenched electric rock and even some rap (a riveting version of
