Louie Bluie

Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest

Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.

• Release date
• November 13, 1985
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Music
• Director
• Terry Zwigoff

Cast

H

Howard Armstrong Himself

T

Ted Bogan Himself

J

Jay Lynch Himself

Y

Yank Rachell Himself

I

Ikey Robinson Himself