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  • 2018
  • Abramorama
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  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 35 m
Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story

Summary Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story is a feature-length documentary about the life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield. A white, teen-age harmonica player from Chicago's south side, Paul learned from the original black masters performing nightly in his own back yard. Muddy Waters was Paul's mentor and life...

Directed By: John Anderson

  • 2018
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2018
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 35 m

Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story

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Summary Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story is a feature-length documentary about the life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield. A white, teen-age harmonica player from Chicago's south side, Paul learned from the original black masters performing nightly in his own back yard. Muddy Waters was Paul's mentor and life...

Directed By: John Anderson

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80
Oct 25, 2018
It’s full of music that makes the case for its subject’s pre-eminence—he played with the intensity of a highest-category hurricane—and has an interesting slant on the issue of cultural appropriation; Butterfield was white, and the blues he played were, and remain, indelibly black.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 16, 2018
While the last third of Butterfield’s life is tragic, spending the better part of 90 minutes with the man and his music is exhilarating. The picture may get at least a few people talking about him again.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 8, 2018
The anecdotes weave an entrancing narrative, though the movie could have benefited from more vintage performance footage of Butterfield’s band at the height of its powers.
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50
Oct 11, 2018
Anderson, who previously made several Beach Boys/Brian Wilson video docs, is attentive to chronology and to Butterfield's legacy, but isn't making the kind of film that might win the artist new fans or magically transport older ones back to the moment when he was at the top of his field.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company PVB
Release Date Oct 17, 2018
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/PaulButterfieldDocumentary/
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Awards

Newport Beach Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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