Plain Man Blues--Daddy Mack Orr's Inspiring Story of Struggle and Triumph | 
 enlarge | Director: Jim O'donnell
Actors: Daddy Mack Orr, James Bonner, Harold Bonner, William Faulkner, Eddie Dattel
Studio: Seamus Entertainment & Inside Sounds
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 123912
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 58
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 781371110795
EAN: 0781371110795
ASIN: B00198J56M
Theatrical Release Date: July 15, 2008
Release Date: May 30, 2008
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Product Description
Cameras rolled when Daddy Mack Orr went into the studio in the late summer of 2006 to record his third CD Bluestones for Memphis label Inside Sounds. The recording eventually reaches #3 on the national blues radio charts and further establishes The Daddy Mack Blues Band as one of the most exciting blues bands on the festival circuit. Plain Man Blues not only captures the making of the CD, but also explores Mack Orr s day-to-day life as a mechanic at his North Memphis garage. Award winning director Jim O Donnell carefully documents stories about Mack s childhood as they travel those same gravel roads and cotton fields in Como, Mississippi, where Mack lived until he moved to Memphis as a young man. Inspired by Albert King and others, Mack decides to learn blues guitar at the age of forty-five. His wife Dorothy candidly describes this period in Mack s life as only a wife could, revealing both her humor and dedication to her husband of forty years. Plain Man Blues also includes footage from the 2006 Arkansas Music and Heritage Festival, where Billy Gibson sits-in on harmonica, and performances at The Center for Southern Folklore and The Blue Worm in Memphis. This one-hour feature documentary is an inspiring story of a man with a can-do attitude who shatters some of the stereotypes that some people have of a bluesman.
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The Story of a Blues Guitarist Who Started Late July 5, 2008
Daddy Mack Orr is definitely a late blooming blues guitar player. He was playing the "circuit" with Muddy, Wolf, or B.B. And he only recently recorded his third CD (on the Memphis-based Insides Sounds label). But that's not to say that he's not worth checking out. He just hasn't given up his "day job" yet as an auto mechanic, which is where we meet him at the beginning of this 55-minute documentary directed by Jim O'Donnell.
Orr grew up in Como, Mississippi and the first part of the film has him showing us the empty lots and fields along the highway where things "used to be". WE then follow him into the studio to watch him record his latest CD. There's also a performance at a blues fest in Arkansas. There's enough full performance footage in the film to satisfy most blues fans, however, they will be very frustrated when they see that the film was not "indexed" on the DVD and it's ONE long 55-minute track, making it impossible to go back and watch the performances. (Someone missed the boat here.). There are a few "bonus performances" on the disc as well.
A film like this shows that it's never too late to discover your talent for singing the blues.
Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"
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