Martin Scorsese Presents Blues - Warming By The Devil's Fire

Charles Burnett explores his own past as a young boy who was shuttled back and forth between Los Angeles and Mississippi, torn between an uncle who loved the blues and a mother who believed that the blues was the devil's music. Burnett's film boldly mixes fictional storytelling with documentary footage of a host of blues legends from Lightnin' Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt to Dinah Washington and Sonny Boy Williamson in a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in Mississippi in 1955, dramatising the tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel and the devilish moans of the blues.