Orem Library

Traces the musical odyssey of B.B. King to Memphis and pays homage to the great blues musicians of the Memphis tradition. Filmed on the occasion of the great reunion in which Memphis musicians returned to honor their roots.

Eighteen years after the Brothers' original mission for God, Elwood Blues is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time he's been away. He embarks on a whole new mission--to reassemble the old band and set a wayward orphan on the path to redemption.

The author gives a tip of the hat to B.B. King in an ode to the blues and babyhood.

"Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog.--

To escape an abusive master, a junkyard dog named Flats runs away and makes a name for himself playing blues on his guitar.

Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...