This is Walter Hill's second major collaboration with Rye Cooder, the other being Streets of Fire. It's a great introduction to delta blues music via a compelling story and an authentic and outstanding sound track. It's my favorite delta blues album of all time. I do regret that they left the cuttn' heads music from the climax off of the CD, presumably because it was R&R or not structured enough. Apparently a lot of people didn't think that scene fit with their delicate intellectual sensibilites.
It's got Dolby sound, it ought to be on DVD!
It's got Dolby sound, it ought to be on DVD!
