Bobby Rush – MRQE

Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of James Cotton, harmonica powerhouse, whose music shaped blues and rock. Orphaned at 9, Cottons life tracks Americas historyfrom the post-depression cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta to being mentored by the original Delta bluesmen, to Chicagolands artistic reinvention to the live music scene in Austin, Texas.

Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

I Am the Blues

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. Visiting the last original blues devils, many in their 80’s, still living in the deep south, working without management and touring the Chitlin’ Circuit. Let Bobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, Henry Gray, Carol Fran, Lazy Lester, Bilbo Walker, RL Boyce, Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes, Lil Buck Sinegal, LC Ulmer and their friends awaken the blues in all of us.

American Revolution 2

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

American Revolution 2 begins with footage of the political demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention and the forceful reaction of the Chicago Police Department and the National Guard. Investigating the lack of an African American presence at the protests, the filmmakers follow members of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party as they search for common ground with a variety of white activist groups. In one scene, Panther Bobby Lee and members of the Young Patriots, a community of white Appalachian activists living in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, organize to protest police brutality. The seemingly disparate groups find shared social and political objectives that overcome racial differences police violence, poverty, lack of employment, and poor living conditions. This potential for a cross-racial and interethnic political movement is the movies beautiful but unrealized dream.