The movie is based on the believable theory that music or especially gifted musicians can conjure up magic through their ...

Blues music has long been linked to the mystical or supernatural. After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert ...

Ludwig Göransson never imagined scoring a film about a blues guitar player ... They were dangerous. Their music was edgy. It was ‘the devil's music.' If you're listening to this music, you ...

And that aspect is something that’s very present when blues music was also called the Devil’s music. There’s a contrast between a secular lifestyle and [Christian morality]. So the film is ...

Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music. This is FRESH AIR.

The idea that the church considered the blues to be “the devil’s music,” Wald said, is true only to the extent that any music that inspired dancing would have been seen as such.

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Quinn Bishop, owner of Houston's Cactus Music record store, says he has been hearing a lot of chatter about the film in his store. "It's Houston and blues is always a strong seller. But lots of ...