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Plain Man Blues--Daddy Mack Orr's Inspiring Story of Struggle and Triumph Actors: Daddy Mack Orr, James Bonner, Harold Bonner, William Faulkner, Eddie Dattel Director: Jim O'Donnell Genres: Music Video & Concerts, Documentary G     2008     0hr 58min Cameras rolled when Daddy Mack Orr went into the studio in the late summer of 2006 to record his third CD Bluestones for Memphis label Inside Sounds. The recording eventually reaches #3 on the national blues radio charts a...  more »nd further establishes The Daddy Mack Blues Band as one of the most exciting blues bands on the festival circuit. Plain Man Blues not only captures the making of the CD, but also explores Mack Orr s day-to-day life as a mechanic at his North Memphis garage. Award winning director Jim O Donnell carefully documents stories about Mack s childhood as they travel those same gravel roads and cotton fields in Como, Mississippi, where Mack lived until he moved to Memphis as a young man. Inspired by Albert King and others, Mack decides to learn blues guitar at the age of forty-five. His wife Dorothy candidly describes this period in Mack s life as only a wife could, revealing both her humor and dedication to her husband of forty years. Plain Man Blues also includes footage from the 2006 Arkansas Music and Heritage Festival, where Billy Gibson sits-in on harmonica, and performances at The Center for Southern Folklore and The Blue Worm in Memphis. This one-hour feature documentary is an inspiring story of a man with a can-do attitude who shatters some of the stereotypes that some people have of a bluesman.  « less

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