Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story

Name: Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story
Genre: Biography, Music, Documentary
Released: October 17, 2018
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Anton Fig, Barry Goldberg, Bob Dylan, Buzz Feiten, Cindy Cashdollar

2018

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Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story

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Abramorama | Release Date: October 17, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anton Fig, Barry Goldberg, Bob Dylan, Buzz Feiten, Cindy Cashdollar, Elvin Bishop, Joe Boyd, Marshall Chess, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield

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 andHorn 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 lifelong friend, happy to share his wisdom and expertise with such a gifted young acolyte. The interracial Paul Butterfield Blues Band, featuring the twin guitar sound of Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, the rhythm section of Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold and the keyboards of Mark Naftalin, added a rock edge to the Chicago blues, bringing an authenticity to its sound that struck a chord with the vast white rock audience and rejuvenated world wide interest in the blues. The band's first LP, released in 1965, was named "#11 Blues Album of All Time" by Downbeat. The only artist to perform at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969, Paul would continue to break new ground in the blues, and to stand up for racial equality, until his death at age 44 in 1987 of a drug overdose. Through his music and words, along with first-hand accounts of his family, his band mates and those closest to him, Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story tells the complex story of a man many call the greatest harmonica player of all time. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.… Expand

Director: John Anderson

Genre(s): Biography, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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Joe Morgenstern

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. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

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. Read full review

Greg Kot

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. Read full review

John DeFore

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. Read full review

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Trailesque

Apr 23, 2021

This tells the story of Paul Butterfield and his music. He was an early blues-rock superstar, which he usually is not credited with today - and ended up with a lot of issues.

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