Directed, filmed and edited by: Niles Atallah
Journey South is a documentary on Bluesmen Robert Lowery, Robert Mitchell, Napolian Strickland, and Othar Turner. Interviews and musical performances of the musicians were filmed between 2000-2001.
Offering a glimpse of Blues musicians and territory often missed in other representations of Blues culture, Journey South focuses upon these four elderly Bluesmen in their homes and convalescent centers in Arkansas and Mississippi.
Special attention is given to the neglected aspects of the lives of these Bluesmen as well as the state of the Blues country in 2001. Blues ruins are visited: Mississippi John Hurt’s grave in Avalon and Dockery Plantation where Charlie Patton once lived and played his music.
Journey South is dedicated to these musicians, two of whom have died since filming: Napolian Strickland and Othar Turner.
