00:00Where I go, I'm gonna let it shine, let it be where I go, I'm gonna let it shine, let
00:15it shine, let it shine, let it shine.
00:30This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let
00:50it shine.
00:54Sammy!
00:55Lula.
01:01Come on, son.
01:06It's okay.
01:10My son has felt the call of sin.
01:13You see what that gets you?
01:15But the good Lord calls upon us to be fishers of men who sin and show them the way.
01:32I want you to swear to me that before this congregation to leave those sinning ways where they lie. I
01:43want you to promise right now.
01:51Drop the guitar, Sammy.
01:58In the name of God!
02:09Let it go, Sammy.
02:33Good morning, Miss Beatrice.
02:34Did you start my nuggets out of night?
02:37You gonna tell me what you're playing or am I gonna have to hear through the grapevine?
02:40You have a good one, Beatrice. I'll see you at service tomorrow morning.
02:54Morning, Ma.
02:56Morning, baby.
03:01Don't put that on your body, Samuel.
03:03It'll dry you out.
03:05I'm gonna put this on while it's still wet.
03:07Boy, you ain't got the sense God gave a goose.
03:11Hey, Mama said get up.
03:45Oh, wow.
03:53Wait a minute.
04:05I'm the chicken.
04:06den
04:06Let's go!
04:30And Hogwood?
04:36you boys twins now we cousins
04:43that's good there she is
04:47they moved a ton of timber a month back in his heyday workers lived upstairs
04:59y'all wash these floors
05:03yeah I thought y'all was dead set on buying the place
05:11more time I spent with y'all less sure I am you boys are serious about it
05:16ain't no boys here
05:18I just grown me but grown me in money and grown me in bullets
05:34I didn't mean nothing by it just the way we talk down here
05:40we'll take it
05:43the mill the equipment and the lane that it's standing on
05:49damn
05:50now I understand it's the last diamond we ever gonna see from us
05:53and if we see you or any one of your clan buddies cross our property line
05:58we gonna kill them right where they staying
06:02clan don't exist no more
06:05okay then
06:07all right
06:09say
06:11what are you fellas planning on doing with the place
06:31morning pop
06:35you know pop for early son
06:37like you say
06:39jump on the work
06:40don't let the work jump on you
06:43finish my quota for the day
06:47yeah
06:47I brought it in here
06:49I want you to help me give my sermon tomorrow
06:56first corinthians 10 13
07:02read
07:04no temptation
07:06has overtaken you
07:08except what is common to mankind
07:10god is faithful
07:13he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear
07:17but when you're tempted
07:18he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it
07:22let pop if you don't mind
07:23I'm gonna be late
07:25late for what boy
07:27where you gotta be that's more important than being in the house of god
07:32I've been working all week pop
07:36I'm gonna be free of all this for a day
07:41I'll be back in town for service in the morning
07:46son
07:52you keep dancing with the devil
07:56one day he's gonna follow you home
08:02little cousin come on out
08:05got two dollars waiting on time
08:08family
08:13oh don't you worry now uncle jeg
08:16gonna get him back to you in one piece
08:24boy look at you
08:26all grown up
08:28why are you big
08:29daddy doing right by you
08:32so he's not putting his hands on you is he
08:34nah man nothing too much
08:37fucking loved ones
08:38only when they deserve it
08:40more mile usually hands out the whoopings
08:42good
08:44with uncle jade always been good
08:45yeah
08:48so tell me about chicago
09:11that's why we came back here
09:13figure we might as well deal with the devil we know
09:42well who gonna watch the truck when I'm in there talking to the child
09:45you just let them see as you
09:46we've been gone a long time stack
09:48seven years ain't long enough to forget about us
09:57don't move
10:16how about you leave that truck to us
10:21watch this fool make sure he don't get in no trouble
10:23you big enough to take me now huh
10:25i'll do what i can
10:26lord you'll do what you told
10:28we got 24 hours to turn this booze into cash
10:31you keep your eyes open for anybody staring too long
10:33this nigga don't know how to watch his own back
10:39last time you clean this
10:41last time i had to use it
10:49shit cracker showing up later already got us behind schedule
10:53smoke
10:54look at that sky
10:55that's a mighty fine day to be free ain't it
10:58i want you joint
11:00just like we always wanted
11:05love you love you too
11:06be careful
11:07i will
11:11you with me
11:12come on
11:13No, no, no, no, no.
11:43No, no, no, no.
12:14You're not a little Lisa, is you?
12:16Guilty as charged.
12:20You daddy here?
12:20Daddy?
12:22What?
12:25Old child.
12:26Damn cat dragged in.
12:32Where's your brother?
12:33All right, listen.
12:34Every cool's got a button on towards the top.
12:38And you want to keep them on.
12:39You find it?
12:41Lick that.
12:42Not too hard.
12:43Not too soft either.
12:47How fast this thing dropped?
12:48Too damn fast.
12:50Why you want to drop?
12:51Come on, you know I want to drop.
12:54On the way back.
12:55All right.
12:56All right.
12:58Come on, tell me.
12:59You and Uncle Jay, y'all doing okay?
13:05You always said you would tell me what happened to Uncle Adam when I got older.
13:13Y'all really killed?
13:19Nah, we ain't killin'.
13:23Smoke dead.
13:33Heal it!
13:37Yeah, just get your own damn thing, huh?
13:42Fuck you gone, nigga!
13:43Bet this bull will beat you there.
13:46You shot me, motherfucker!
13:51Smoke.
13:52Terry?
13:53Boy, how you been?
13:54I was doing better before you shot me in the ass.
13:56Why in the hell you trying to boost my truck?
13:58It's your truck.
14:00I ain't know it was your truck.
14:01I swear, Smoke.
14:02Bullshit!
14:02I told you it was his.
14:03Wait, wait, Smoke.
14:04I thought she was lying.
14:05Charles was supposed to be in Chicago working for Capone.
14:09Yeah, we back now.
14:15Who's he?
14:17Just some nigga I met last week.
14:19Where you from?
14:21Maybe.
14:24Hey, what you do that for?
14:26Can't have some nigga from the Maybell Plantation talking about how he almost robbed the twins.
14:31Not without a limp.
14:32Show for it.
14:32Who gonna patch me up?
14:34I ain't got no money.
14:35What if I get sepsis or some shit in there?
14:37Y'all scoot on out the street.
14:38Put some pressure on him.
14:41Get up, boy!
14:42Our daddy knocked me unconscious.
14:44By the time I came to him, smoke was halfway done burning.
14:48Used to beat y'all?
14:49Me mostly.
14:51He ain't mean it.
14:54See, he been taking good care of that thing.
14:58Hey, I can't thank y'all enough for this.
15:00I mean, it plays so right.
15:01Yeah, that's, uh, Charlie Patton's guitar.
15:04Me and my brother wanted off.
15:06I'm in the car game.
15:06Hold on, Snack.
15:09You mean to tell me how Charlie Patton's guitar this whole time?
15:12Swift old guy in your head.
15:13No.
15:13Now let's see if you can play like it.
15:15Right here?
15:15Yeah, right now.
15:16Come on.
15:16All right, come on.
15:17Watch this.
15:19Okay.
15:36Traveling, I don't know where in the world I'm in.
15:44Traveling, I don't know where in the world I'm in.
15:56We're going to make some money.
15:58We're going to make some money.
16:15We're going to make some money.
16:18We're going to make some money.
16:22Find some money.
16:22Go, take off.
16:32Mama, Daddy wants you.
16:40Thanks, Wayne.
16:41Yeah.
16:44Oh, is that Delta Slim?
16:48You know, there's two men out there.
16:51Look like they've been shot.
16:53That'd be my doing.
16:54I done already gave Bo the money to get them patched up.
16:56Why you gotta come here bringing trouble?
16:58Trouble ain't all he bringing.
17:07Yeah, thank you for your generosity.
17:12I guess that's your cargo win.
17:15You know your black anthem back down there, huh?
17:19You boy.
17:20That's my little cousin, Preacher Boy Sam.
17:22Happens to be the finest blues player in all the Delta.
17:27I got socks on this, you boy.
17:30What the hell?
17:31You know, Dr. Blue.
17:37I can show you better than I can tell you.
17:39Oh, we're up now.
17:42Hold up, hold up now.
17:43This here, my patch, right here.
17:45Now, you wasn't his cousin.
17:47And the young pup, the boot.
17:48I'll cut your ass too thin to fry.
17:50And you threaten him again.
17:52I'm gonna make your drunk-ass swat out of him on it.
17:54How you paying for this?
17:55Man, you want to make a sign for him.
17:58Russ job.
17:59Gonna cost you.
18:00I'm listening.
18:0120.
18:0215 for the front door sign and 5 for the menu.
18:0410.
18:057 for the front door sign.
18:063 for the menu.
18:0716.
18:0715.
18:08Done.
18:10Oh, we only got one color, by the way.
18:14What color you got?
18:16Red.
18:1713.
18:1814.
18:1914.50.
18:2214.
18:23All these flowers right here.
18:26And we got a deal.
18:28Done.
18:30I'll give you $20 to come play at our juke tonight.
18:33I ain't never heard of your juke.
18:35I've been in business every Saturday night for the last 10 years.
18:38Message's gonna be there another 10 years after that, at least.
18:43Shit.
18:44There's probably more time than I got left on this earth stack.
18:49I play, and I get as much corn liquor as I can drink.
18:54Sounding like me, I can't ask for more than that.
18:57Oh, Slim, I'll drink it in.
19:09What you got, devil?
19:10What is?
19:11It's an Irish beer.
19:13Straight from the north side of Chicago.
19:15Huh?
19:15Oh.
19:17You say that's beer?
19:19When they bring us down here, empty-handed.
19:33I got 500 more bottles, just like that.
19:37Ice cold.
19:45These two are gonna be playing down at the old sawmill.
19:48You know the one.
19:48The one on the riverbank right outside Closdale.
19:51Yeah, yeah.
19:52We gonna have us battling the blues.
19:54Y'all ready to eat?
19:55Yeah.
19:56Y'all ready to drink?
19:57Yeah.
19:58Y'all ready to sweat till y'all stack?
20:00We gonna get funky like a Mississippi donkey, y'all.
20:08All right, get a drink on the twins when you get there.
20:12Where you get that one from?
20:13Same.
20:14I seen you somewhere before.
20:16Maybe.
20:18Same.
20:18Carling, don't you?
20:20Time to time.
20:21Mm-hmm.
20:22I'm preachable.
20:27Carling.
20:29Carling.
20:30Mm.
20:32I'm married, by the way.
20:34Happy?
20:35Careful, boy.
20:37You're gonna bite off more than you can chew.
20:42Maybe I'll see you tonight.
20:43All right.
20:44All right.
20:56Hey, hey, hey, hey.
20:57She white wanna stand at you.
21:00Shit.
21:02You sure she white?
21:05She walking over here right now.
21:07All right.
21:07Excuse me, boy.
21:08Excuse me, boy.
21:09Is this here smoke?
21:11Or is this stack?
21:12Don't, don't look at her.
21:13Just go over there and keep playing.
21:16Yeah, it's okay.
21:20You know I waited for you.
21:21Well, I don't know how in the hell you gonna do that.
21:23Because you told me you loved me.
21:25Well, I told you to stay the fuck away from me, too, but I guess you didn't hear that part.
21:28Oh, I heard you.
21:30I heard you loud and clear, but then you stuck your tongue in my coos and fucked me so hard,
21:34I figured you changed your mind.
21:35Keep your voice down now, Mary.
21:38It's not exactly how I remember it.
21:40Oh, it ain't.
21:40Remember falling asleep with your head on my chest?
21:43Leaving in the middle of the night without a fucking word or a note?
21:45The hell are you doing back here?
21:48I buried my mama yesterday, stack.
21:51Figured I might see you in smoke there as much she looked after you both.
21:54But I guess y'all love lasted as long as y'all could get something out of her.
21:57You're right.
21:58That's all she was.
22:00Fool.
22:02Won't be.
22:03Rotten hell, stack.
22:05Yeah, I will.
22:10Save your trifling ass room.
22:12Right next to me.
22:14Shit.
22:15Where you staying?
22:17Fool.
22:19Maybe you're saying why.
22:21Boys get to getting.
22:22Come on, Slim.
22:25They take us to this big house full of white folks.
22:29Bounce around right here and have us to play.
22:31See this white folks who you're playing for?
22:33They're real money.
22:36After y'all playing them old ragtime songs.
22:38Sure was.
22:40They playing a fair amount of blues, too.
22:43Them peck of wood with nodding their heads, stomping their feet.
22:47Some of them was almost on the rhythm.
22:50The rest of me, we changed it up confusingly.
22:52Mm.
22:56See white folks say they like the blues just fine.
22:58They just don't like the people who make it.
23:01What do you got to do with the money?
23:04I drank it.
23:07Rice said he was going to take that money going out to Little Rock and start him in a little
23:12church.
23:12Did he?
23:15That's a damn fool.
23:18He took out all his money to pay for them.
23:21Two-dollar train ticket.
23:23Train conductor saw him.
23:25Clank got a hold to him.
23:27Searched his pockets to find all that money.
23:30Made up a story about him.
23:31Killing some white man for it and raping that white man's wife.
23:35And they lynched him right there in the railroad station.
23:42Do you know they cut off the man's road?
24:01Come on, now, y'all.
24:02Get that guitar, I'm going to hand it.
24:08Hey!
24:28Papa's here.
24:33Papa's here.
24:54How you been?
24:56No miseries worth complaining about.
25:05You come along?
25:11Yeah, stack on the other side, time.
25:16Come back, foe.
25:20We bought that old saw, ma'am.
25:22Yeah, we're going to patch it up.
25:24Make it into a juke joint.
25:26A juke joint?
25:29It's one of the stacks I did?
25:31Yeah, you figure tonight going to be a grand opening?
25:33We got word they're going to make booze legal again.
25:36Figured it's our last chance to go legit.
25:38I thought y'all was done with the Delta.
25:40Last I heard y'all were northern men.
25:43No, we through Chicago.
25:45Chicago through y'all?
25:48What you asking?
25:50Who you and stack robbed
25:51to get enough money for them crackers
25:53to sell you a whole meal?
25:55Yeah.
26:11Just this, Miss Annie.
26:14And a pinch of hydrant.
26:16All right.
26:18Now, don't sell nothing that's on the way home.
26:21I don't want your mama coming at me crazy later.
26:23Yes, ma'am.
26:30I can't believe you taking this made-believe shit.
26:32Smoke, give me my money for I'll cut your black ass.
26:35You're going to put that blade up, woman.
26:38I'll trade you.
26:39I don't want your money.
26:41Don't be stupid, now.
26:41I ain't stupid.
26:42Your money come with blood.
26:44All money come with blood, baby.
26:45Not like yours.
26:46This shit won't even spend nowhere else.
26:48I ain't going nowhere else.
26:49I don't need that curse money you got.
26:56You know, woman, I've been all over this world
26:58because ships, trains.
27:07I've seen men die ways I didn't even know it was possible.
27:11I ain't never saw no roots, no demons, no ghosts, no magic.
27:20Just power.
27:22And only money can get it.
27:27You fool.
27:29All that war and whatever the hell you been doing in Chicago.
27:34Are you back here in front of me?
27:37Two arms, two legs, two eyes, and a brain that work?
27:41How you know I ain't pray?
27:43I work every route my grandmama taught me to keep you
27:47and that crazy brother you're safe
27:48every day since you've been gone.
27:55So why those roots ain't work on our baby then?
28:02I don't know.
28:06But they work for you.
28:09I don't know.
28:10I don't know.
28:18You still got that mojo bag.
28:58You still got it?
28:58So I don't know what to do with Cordek.
29:02I see you.
29:05Shit.
29:19Why are you here, Smoke?
29:23We was hoping to serve food to you tonight.
29:28We want you to cook for us.
29:32Elijah.
29:38You won't let me say it.
29:43It still hurts coming back here.
29:48But I love you.
29:52And I miss you.
30:06I love you.
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