Six Blues Licks

SIX BLUES LICKS

Six Stories in Blues...

Six stories of setting "Blues", dedicated to the "music of the devil" and largely set there where the most important genre of the twentieth century was born: the Mississippi Delta.

With stories that tell of musicians, travels, legends, souls sold to the devil, dreams, solos, murders, mysteries, accidents, racism and much more.

Guitar String Blues

tells of the young Elmer Dixon who, in the early '70s, is go in the Delta area looking for an old musician, Fatty Abe Freeman and to be told by him what happened in a juke joint 28 years earlier, when, while Fatty Abe and his brother Sammy were playing, a white man enters the room and without spent a word went up on the stage and began to play the guitar, defying the hostility of all bystanders.

And he played guitar it like a god, or rather ... like a devil.

Strogoff

In the Tuscan countryside of the late 80s, the boys put on a band. Among them is the bizarre Strogoff, the less gifted musically, but the most charismatic. Strogoff loves bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan and is madly enough to dress like him.

The group is preparing for an important contest, to be held on 27 August 1990. But just as they are about to go on stage comes the news of the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan. And Strogoff ... disappears.

Martha Rae

Martha Rae was born in the deep south of the Delta in the '10s. The mother dies young, the father is an alcoholic who rapes her. Martha Rae kills him and flees, with an idea: to become the best. It will end in a crossroads, where the legend says that at midnight the devil shows up and makes you a proposal.

From there, Martha Rae will become the best: the best singer and musician, the best dancer and lover. A dissolute life until the appointment with destiny.

Harpo Johnny Boy

The first time he hears himself call Johnny Boy was a child, and it is Uncle Johnny who calls him that. And he gives him a harmonica, because little Johnny Boy has the Blues.

With his uncle, a womanizer and a globetrotter, Johnny Boy travels all over the United States, become a great harmonica player and end up recording in Chicago, with great bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Little Walter. But on the street he loses his uncle, killed in a fight. And on the evening of his twenty-seventh birthday ...

Tombolo Blues

1973: the young Buddy Fantini leaves Livorno, where he was born, to reach the territory of the Mississippi Delta, on the trail of a dead soldier there, at the Tombolo pine wood, along the Via Aurelia, after the Second World War: Buddy Lee Dawkins, a great guitarist who had recorded records before leaving for the World War II.

The stories of the two Buddy are intertwined: the first one, which stops in Livorno after the war and knows the love of the young Cesira Fantini, one of the little girls who ended up at the Tombolo pinewood like many other young people in that period; the second, who years later seeks the traces of the one who was his father.

Honky Tonk Train

On the honky tonk train you play, drink, dance and do other nice things. The beautiful Jo Ann has lost her husband, he says he committed suicide after losing his property in a poker game. But she knows that the man would never lose and knows that on that train was cheated. She ask for help to the investigator Duster Bennet, her old flame, and to the assistant, the boxer Tab Mayfield, to get on the Honky Tonk Train, where there is a mysterious enemy to be eliminated. The greatest boogie pianist of the moment will help them: Ace Billy Ballinger.

Let's starting the journey...from Italy, via Aurelia...to Usa, Mississippi...