ComingSoon can reveal the trailer for Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues. Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues is a new documentary about the legendary music icon.
Directed by Bestor Cram and written by Mike Majoros, the film will be released in North America in February from Freestyle Digital Media.
Check out the Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues trailer below (watch more trailers and clips). “Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues is an emotionally evocative feature documentary that portrays the untold story of James Cotton, a legend whose musical influence shaped the Chicago Blues style, having been mentored with the originators of the Delta blues tradition, the synopsis for the movie reads. “Cotton’s life tracks a swath of America’s history — from the post-depression cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta to tough Chicagoland’s era of brilliant artistic reinvention to today’s live music scene in Austin, Texas.
In between are tours with Janis Joplin and Paul Butterfield and sessions with the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Steve Miller, B.B.
King, and many more. This new film captures America’s soul as the blues becomes interpreted in jazz, big band, rock and roll, punk, hip-hop, and rap.