You See Me Laughin'...

I really like this film so far.' You See Me Lauhin' is a full length documentary about four great Mississippi Bluesmen and the Oxford MS based label Fat Possum Records.Some great icons in this film were R.L Burnside, David Kimbrough and Asie Payton. The setting of this documentary depicted poverty as the interviews and stories were told in some poor like looking settings.This film presented music as an art form and showed how much music has changed over the years. It was interesting how this film also depicted the exploitation of musicians by record companies.

This documentary was interesting as it captured the soul of some real African American Bluesmen musicians. The film showed how these old time musicians set a trend with their music for present day music. This is great as it helps us in a sense to understand the roots behind some of our present day music. The better part though, is that back then these musicians had more emotions in their music and did it for the true love of it. Nowadays, it appears as if musicians are getting involved with music for the monetary aspect of it.

This documentary was also very hilarious even though it had interesting interviews which at times retold some disturbing stories. For example, Burnside retold his story of his occasion of killing a man and then spending six months in prison for it. T-Model Ford spoke about his abusive punishment he received once from his father which damaged him really seriously. This film was an intense film which grabbed my attention as I was really interested in their stories. The great part about all of this is that the stories are real.

I also noticed throughout the film that most of the 'stars' as well as other characters had missing teeth and poor living conditions. In spite of these conditions, they were having fun and loving the music. Also, few of these bluesmen spoke openly about their promiscuous behaviour back then!

I would surely recommend my friends and modern day musicians to watch this film. I do not have much to say about the Fat Possum Records Label because I thought what they did to these guys was awful and inconsiderate.( As you can tell from the image presented above). Some parts of this film was a little sad but it was worth watching.