You see me laughin.

So far I am really enjoying "You see me laughin'."  The film is filled with awesome and entertaining characters.  The documentary is about a record company in southern Mississippi that records local blues musicians.  In my opinion, the film has a sort of double meaning.  On one hand you have a couple of young entrepreneurs who are recording the dying art of blues music and spreading that message to a new generation of youth.  At the same time, the record label is making money off people who barely have 2 nickels to rub together.  Both scenarios are sad.

I thought the music in the film was very good.  I particularly enjoy the music of R.L. Burnside.  His music has so much emotion to it that it draws in his audience.  RL's music is genuinely from his creative side.  He has not heard of every blues musician who ever lived, he taught himself to play and plays from the heart.  He is not trying to imitate other artists, but rather play what he feels.

I also liked some of the stories the musicians tell in the film.  In particular the one about RL shooting a man in the back of the head in self defense.  I have been putting together a shopping cart of music that was featured in the film.  A lot of the artists are featured on iTunes.