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Bottle Up and Go (1980)
Directed by Bill Ferris
Documentary · 18m
This film follows Louis Dotson, a farmer and musician in Lorman, Mississippi, as he constructs a “one-string guitar” on the wall of his front porch. Dotson also “blows the bottle” using a Coca-Cola bottle partially filled with water. Both his bottle blowing and his one-strand-on-the-wall are important links between African musical roots and the blues. The one-strand marks the beginning of the “slide guitar” style which heavily influenced 20th-century blues, rock and roll, and rock music.
Crew
- Director
- Bill Ferris
Details
- Release date
- 1980-01-01
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English