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
00:46it shine, let it shine, let it shine.
00:54Sammy!
00:56Lola.
01:01Come on, son.
01:06It's okay.
01:10My son has felt the call of sin, you see what that gets you?
01:14But the good Lord calls upon us to be fishers of men who sin.
01:22And show them the way.
01:32I want you to swear to me and before this congregation to leave those sinning ways where they lie.
01:42I want 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.
03:36You're not right.
03:38Bye.
03:46Daddy.
03:48Bye.
03:50Bye.
03:54Bye.
03:56Bye.
04:00Bye.
04:02Bye.
04:03I don't know.
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
04:50workers lived upstairs
04:58y'all wash these floors
05:03yeah what was on
05:04i thought y'all was dead set on buying the place
05:11more time i spent with y'all the less sure i am you boys are serious about it
05:16ain't no boys here i just grown me
05:19but grown me in money and grown me in bullets
05:34i didn't mean nothing by it
05:37just 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
05:57cross our property line
05:58we gonna kill them right where they stand
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
06:35your portfolio 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
06:5710 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
07:22now 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 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 jake
08:16gonna get them back to you in one piece
08:24boy look at you all grown up
08:28why you big daddy doing right by you
08:32so he's not putting his hands on you is he
08:34nah man nothing too much
08:37what's up
08:37what's up
08:38what's up
08:38only when they deserve it
08:39boy ma usually hands out the whoopings
08:42good
08:44with uncle jade always been good
08:45yeah
08:48so tell me about chicago
08:50i heard they ain't got jim pro up there
08:53black man can go where he want
08:56so boy you can't be believing anything that you hear
09:00time to fill your head up with a make believe me and your cousin
09:11that's why we came back here
09:12i figured 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 can 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
10:40last time i had to use it
10:49shit cracker showing up late 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 own juke joint
11:00just like we always wanted
11:05love you
11:05love you too
11:06be careful
11:07i will
11:11you with me
11:12come on
11:13come on
11:24come on
11:29Oh, my God.
11:58Oh, my God.
12:27Oh, my God dragged in.
12:33Where's your brother?
12:34All right, listen.
12:34Every cool's got a button on him towards the top.
12:38And you want to keep him on him.
12:39You find it?
12:41Lick that.
12:42Not too hard.
12:43Not too soft, either.
12:47How fast does this thing drop?
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, all right.
12:58Go on, tell me.
12:59You and Uncle Jay, y'all doing okay?
13:05You always say you would tell me what happened to Uncle Adam when I got older.
13:13Got really killed?
13:20Nah, we ain't killin'.
13:23Smoke dead.
13:24Oh, my God.
13:26Shit.
13:30All right.
13:31All right.
13:33Come on.
13:33Neal!
13:35Lock my fingers, bro.
13:37Yeah, just get your own damn thing, huh?
13:42Fuck you gone, nigga.
13:43Bet this bull will beat you there.
13:45Oh, you 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.
14:08Yeah, we back now.
14:15Who's he?
14:17Just some nigga I met last week.
14:19Where you from?
14:20Maybe.
14:24Hell, what you do that for?
14:26Can't have some nigga from the Maybell Plantation
14:28talking 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 now?
14:37Y'all scoot on out the street.
14:38Put some pressure on him.
14:41Get up, boy.
14:42Our daddy knocked me unconscious.
14:43Listen, by the time I came to,
14:45Smoke was halfway done burning.
14:48You used to be, Charles?
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 him in the car game.
15:06Hold on, Snack.
15:09You mean to tell me I had Charlie Patton's guitar this whole time?
15:12Swift old guy in your hands.
15:13No.
15:14Now, let's see if you can play like it.
15:15Right here?
15:16Yeah, right now.
15:16Come on.
15:16All right, come on.
15:17Watch this.
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.
15:48Woo, hoo, hoo, hoo, boy!
15:51Cause the woman that I'm loving, she sure don't feel marked up.
15:56We gonna make some money.
15:58We gonna make some money.
16:22Go, take off.
16:32Mama, Daddy wants you.
16:40Thanks, twin.
16:41Yeah.
16:43Oh, is that Delta Slim?
16:48You know, there's two men out there.
16:51Look like they've been shot.
16:53That 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 Chicago win.
17:15You're with 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, your boy.
17:30What the hell?
17:31He know about the blues.
17:37I can show you better than I can tell you.
17:39Hold up now.
17:41You know, hold up, hold up now.
17:43This here, my patch, right here.
17:45Now, you wanting his cousin and a young pup to boot,
17:48I'll cut your ass too thin to fry.
17:50And you threaten him again, I'm gonna make your drunk-ass swat out of him on it.
17:54How you paying for this?
17:55And, 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, 3 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.
18:1915.
18:2214.
18:24All these flowers right here.
18:26And we got a deal.
18:2915.
18:3115.
18:4115.
18:4115.
18:4615.
18:4815.
18:49Lay, not get as much corn liquor as I can drink.
18:54Soundin' like me, I can't ask for more than that.
18:57Oh, Slim, I'll drink it in.
19:07Ooh.
19:09What you got, devil?
19:10What is?
19:12It's an Irish beer, straight from the north side of Chicago.
19:15Huh?
19:15Oh.
19:17You sayin' that's beer?
19:18When they ain't bring us down here, empty-handed.
19:32Nah.
19:33Good.
19:34I got 500 more bottles, just like that.
19:37Ice cold.
19:45These two gonna be playing down at the old sawmill.
19:47You know the one, the one on the riverbank right outside Clarksdale.
19:51Yeah, yeah.
19:52We gon' 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 gon' get punky like a Mississippi donkey, y'all.
20:08All right, get a drink on the twins when you get there.
20:11Where'd you get that one from?
20:13Same.
20:14I've seen you somewhere before.
20:16Maybe.
20:18Same, don't you?
20:20Time to time.
20:21Mm-hmm.
20:22I'm preaching, boy.
20:27Perlene.
20:29Perlene.
20:30Mm.
20:32I'm married, by the way.
20:34Apple.
20:35Careful, boy.
20:37You gonna bite off more than you can chew.
20:42Maybe I'll see you tonight.
20:43All right.
20:56Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
20:57She's a white one staring at you.
21:00Shit.
21:02You sure she white?
21:05She walking over here right now.
21:07Excuse me, boy.
21:08Is this here smoke?
21:11Or is this stack?
21:12Don't look at her.
21:13Just go over there and keep playing.
21:16Yeah, it's okay.
21:20You know I waited for you.
21:22Yeah, well, 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,
21:26but I guess you didn't hear that part.
21:28Oh, I heard you.
21:30I heard you loud and clear,
21:31but then you stuck your tongue in my coos
21:33and fucked me so hard,
21:34I figured you changed your mind.
21:35Keep your voice down now, Mary.
21:37It's not exactly how I remember it.
21:39Oh, it ain't.
21:40Remember falling asleep with your head on my chest?
21:43Leaving in the middle of the night
21:44without a fucking word or a note?
21:45What the hell are you doing back here?
21:48I buried my mama yesterday, stack.
21:51Figured I might see you in smoke there
21:53as much she looked after you both.
21:54But I guess y'all love lasted
21:55as long as y'all could get something out of her.
21:57You right.
21:58That's all she was.
22:00Fool.
22:01Home big.
22:03Not in hell, stack.
22:05Shit, I will.
22:10Save your trifling ass room.
22:12Right next to me.
22:14Shit.
22:15Where you staying?
22:17Who?
22:19They be ashamed why.
22:21Boys get to getting.
22:22Come on, Slim.
22:25They take us to this big house
22:27full of white folks.
22:29Bounce around right here
22:30trying to have us to play.
22:31See, these white folks who were playing for?
22:34They're real money.
22:36Had to have playing them old ragtime songs.
22:38Oh, sure was.
22:40They playing a fair amount of blues, too.
22:43Them pecklewoods was nodding their heads,
22:45stomping their feet.
22:47Some of them was almost on the rhythm, in fact.
22:50Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
22:50And the rest of me, we changed it up confusing.
22:53Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
22:56See, white folks say they like the blues just fine.
22:58They just don't like the people who make it.
23:01What's that do with the money?
23:04I drank it.
23:07Rice, they was gonna take that money
23:09going out to Little Rock
23:11and start him a little church.
23:12Did he?
23:15That damn fool.
23:18He took out all his money to pay for them.
23:21Two dollar train ticket.
23:22Train 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
23:33and raping that white man's wife.
23:35And they lynched him right there
23:37in the railroad station.
23:42Do you know they cut off the man's rule?
23:48Mmm!
23:51Mmm!
23:53Mmm!
23:58Mmm!
24:00Mm!
24:01Come on now, y'all.
24:02That guitar I gonna hear now.
24:07Hey!
24:09Mmm!
24:12Mmm!
24:13Mmm!
24:13Mmm!
24:14Mmm!
24:15Mmm!
24:15Mmm!
24:28Papa's here.
24:33Papa's here.
24:54How you been?
24:56No miseries worth complaining about.
25:05You come along?
25:10You just stack on the other side of town.
25:15You come back full?
25:20We bought that old saw, ma'am.
25:22Yeah, we gonna patch it up.
25:24Make it into a juke joint.
25:26Juke joint?
25:29This one of stacks I did?
25:31Yeah, you figure tonight gonna be a grand opening?
25:33We got word they gonna 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.
25:43Nah, we through with Chicago.
25:45Chicago through y'all.
25:48What you asking?
25:50Who you and Stack Rob to get enough money for them crackers to sell you a whole meal?
26:11Just this, Miss Annie.
26:14And a pinch of hydrant.
26:15All right.
26:17All right.
26:17Now, 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 cut your black ass.
26:35You gonna 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.
26:48Look at it.
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.
26:59Cars.
27:02Ships.
27:03Train.
27:06I seen men die ways I didn't even know was possible.
27:11I ain't never saw no roots.
27:14No demons.
27:16No ghosts.
27:17No magic.
27:20Just power.
27:22And only money can get it.
27:27You fool.
27:29All that war and whatever the hells 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 and 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.
28:08But they work for you.
28:18You still got that mojo bag.
28:20You still got that mojo bag.
28:23I'm having a job.
28:28I know I am hungry.
28:30You still get it if you haven't seen me.
28:30You still get it.
28:38You still get it.
28:45I know what's going on.
28:48But the parents are singing.
28:58So I'm going to do this for my phone, but I'm going to miss you.
29:05Shit.
29:19Why are you here, Smoke?
29:23We was hoping to serve food at the juke 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.
30:13And I miss you.
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