Blues

Martin Scorsese's The Blues, a seven-part series that features full-length films directed by Wim Wenders, Richard Pearce, Clint Eastwood and Scorsese himself, premieres September 28th on PBS. Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club) directed The Soul of a Man by using a combination of fictional re-enactments, archival footage and blues covers by the likes of Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams and Lou Reed, to tell the stories of blues artists Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J.B. Lenoir. Accompanying The Blues TV series will be a five-disc box set featuring music from the seven films and a book with a foreword by Scorsese and an afterword by rapper Chuck D.