Tanya Batson-Savage, Freelance WriterFEEL LIKE Going Home takes you back to the start of the blues. Its opening image, archival footage of men working in the fields, acts as transport back to the music's origins buried in the Mississippi Delta.
Feel Like Going Home is the first in the series of films, The Blues: A Musical Journey executive produced by Martin Scorsese. The series is presented by the United States Embassy and Red Bones the Blues Café every Thursday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. until February 5, 2005 on the lawns of the café. It provides an early start to the embassy's marking of Black History Month, February.
GENESIS
The series is particularly important because it is the genesis of African American's extremely pivotal role in the creation of the popular music wafting its way out to the United States.
Scorsese directs this first instalment and creates an evocative film that presents a musical genealogy that goes back to the strife and suffering borne in the Mississippi and then digs further to the African connections in the music.
This connection is particularly startling at the start of the film. Before the documentary gets to the African connection it
