Wim Wenders explores the lives of his favorite blues artists — Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J. B. Lenoir — in a film that is part history and part personal pilgrimage. The film tells the story of these artists' lives in music through a fictional film-within-a-film, rare archival footage, and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians, including Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, Eagle Eye Cherry, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cassandra Wilson, Garland Jeffreys, Los Lobos, and others.

Starring:

B.B. King , Pinetop Perkins , Ike Turner , Dick Waterman , Tommy Redmond Hicks , Chris Thomas King , Keith B. Brown , Nathaniel Lee Jr. , James Hughes , Carl Lumbly , Ivy Cassel , David F. Hughes , Shayne Tingle , Frances Horton White , Joy Brashears , Susan McWilliams , Tommie Tc Carter , Goodman. Wille , Colleen White , Vasti Jackson , Nathaniel Lee Sr. , Ted Davis , Ilona W. Wilkes , Jay R. Unger , Ahmir , Marcia Ball , Chris Barber , David Barnes , Beck , Jeff Beck , James Blood Ulmer , Dave Brubeck , Eric Burdon , T Bone Burnett , Dr. Louis Cannonball Cantor , Sam Carr , Nick Cave , Ray Charles , Eagle Eye Cherry , Jamar Chess , Marshall Chess , Phil Chess , Chuck D , Eric Clapton , Jon Cleary , Common , Shemekia Copeland , Elvis Costello , Toumani Diabaté , Jim Dickinson , Lonnie Donegan , Dr. John , Clint Eastwood , Jack Elliott , Georgie Fame , Chris Farlowe , Laurence Fishburne , Mick Fleetwood , Rosco Gordon , Davy Graham , Henry Gray , Peter Green , Corey Harris , Bert Jansch , Garland Jeffreys , Ian Jennings , Morris Jennings , Pete Johnson , Pete Jolly , The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , Tom Jones , Salif Keita , Don Kern , Pete King , Willie King , Bob Koester , Habib Koité , Sam Lay , Albert Lee , Los Lobos , Lulu , Humphrey Lyttelton , Taj Mahal , John Mayall

Genre:

Documentary, Music