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!
02:08Let it go, Sammy!
02:10Let it go, Sammy!
02:13Let it go, Sammy!
02:29No.
02:30Mm-hmm.
02:33Good morning, Mrs. Beatrice.
02:34Did you storming that Getsar tonight?
02:37You gonna tell me what you're playing or am I gonna have to hear it 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.
03:37Bye.
03:39Bye.
03:47Bye.
04:30You hogwood?
04:36You boys twins?
04:38Nah, we cousins.
04:43That's good.
04:44There she is.
04:47They moved a ton of timber a month back in his heyday.
04:50Workers lived upstairs.
04:59Y'all wash these floors?
05:02Yeah.
05:04What was on them?
05:08I thought y'all was dead set on buying the place.
05:11The more time I spend with y'all, the less sure I am.
05:13You boys are serious about it.
05:16Ain't no boys here.
05:18I just grown me.
05:19But grown me in money.
05:21And 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 land that it's standing on.
05:49Well, damn!
05:50Now, I understand.
05:51It's the last diamond we're ever gonna see from us.
05:54And if we see you or any one of your clan buddies cross our property line,
05:58we're gonna kill them right where they stand.
06:02Clan don't exist no more.
06:05Okay, then.
06:07All right.
06:10Say, what are you fellas planning on doing with the place?
06:26Oh...
06:32Morning, 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.
06:48I brought it in here.
06:49I want you to help me give my sermon tomorrow.
06:56First Corinthians.
06:5810, 13.
07:02Read.
07:04No temptation has overtaken you except 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, you will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
07:22Now, Pop, if you don't mind, I'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.
07:37I'm gonna be free of all this for a day.
07:41I'll be back in town for service in the morning.
08:08I'll be back in town for service in the morning.
08:08the family.
08:13Oh, don't you worry now, Uncle Jack.
08:16I'm gonna get him back to you on one piece.
08:24Boy, look at you
08:26All grown up
08:28Why you big?
08:29Daddy doing right by you?
08:32So he's not putting his hands on you, is he?
08:34Nah, man
08:34Nothing too much
08:36What fucking love wants?
08:38Only when they deserve it
08:39My usually hands out the whoopings
08:42Good
08:44But Uncle Jed always been good
08:46Yeah
08:48So tell me about Chicago
08:50I heard they ain't got Jim Crow up there
08:53Black man can go where he wants
08:56So boy, you can't be believing anything that you hear
09:00Time to fill your head up with a make-believe
09:02With me and your cousin
09:03We don't give it to you straight
09:06Chicago ain't shit from Mississippi
09:07With tall buildings instead of plantation
09:11That's why we came back here
09:13Figured 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?
09:45Nigga, just let him 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 cleaned 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?
10:59I owned you 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
11:13Bye
11:13Bye
11:14Bye
11:14Bye
11:15Bye
11:17Bye
11:28Bye
11:29Bye
12:33Where's your brother?
12:34All right, listen.
12:34Every coo'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.
12:59You 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?
13:20Nah, we ain't killin'.
13:23Smoke dead.
13:42Fuck you gone, nigga.
13:43Bet this bull will beat you there.
13:46Oh, you shot me, motherfucker.
13:51Smoke.
13:52Terry?
13:53Boy, how you been?
13:54I was doin' better before you shot me in the ass.
13:56Why in the hell you tryin' 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 lyin'.
14:05Y'all was supposed to be in Chicago workin' for Capone.
14:08Well, yeah, we back now.
14:15Who he?
14:17Just some nigga I met last week.
14:19Where you from?
14:21Maybe.
14:23Hell, what you do that for?
14:26Can't have some nigga from the Maybell Plantation talkin' about how he almost robbed the twins.
14:31Not without a limp.
14:32Show for it.
14:32Well, who gonna patch me up?
14:34I ain't got no money.
14:35What if I get sepsis or some shit, man?
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 burnin'.
14:48You used to beat y'all?
14:49Me mostly.
14:51He ain't mean it.
14:54See, he been takin' 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 how Charlie Patton's guitar this whole time?
15:12Swift old guy in your head.
15:13Nah.
15:14Now 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.
15:36Traveling, 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 lovin', 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.
16:44Whoa, 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 Chicago win, you're with your black anthem back down there, huh?
17:19You boy.
17:19This is 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 about the blues.
17:37I can show you better than I can tell you.
17:39Whoa, hold up now.
17:41You know, hold up, hold up now.
17:43This is my patch right here.
17:45Now, you wanting this cousin and a young pup to boot, I'll cut your ass too thin to fry.
17:50And you threaten him again, I'm gonna make your drunk-ass swat a harmonic.
17:54How you paying for this?
17:55Man, you want to make a sign for him.
17:58Rust job?
17:59Gon' cost ya.
18:00I'm listening.
18:01Twenty.
18:02Fifteen for the front door sign and five for the menu.
18:04Ten.
18:05Seven for the front door sign, three for the menu.
18:07Sixteen.
18:07Fifteen.
18:08Done.
18:10Oh, we only got one color, by the way.
18:14What color you got?
18:16Red.
18:17Thirteen.
18:18Fourteen fifty.
18:22Fourteen.
18:24With all these flowers right here.
18:26And we got a deal.
18:28Done.
18:30I'll give you twenty dollars to come play at our juke tonight.
18:33I ain't never heard of your juke.
18:35I've been a messenger every Saturday night for the last ten years.
18:38Mess is gonna be there another ten 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.
18:54Sinning like me, I can't ask for more than that.
18:57Oh, Slim, I'll drink it in.
19:07Oh.
19:09What you got, devil?
19:10What is?
19:11It's an Irish beer, straight 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 five hundred more bottles, just like that.
19:37Ice cold.
19:45These two are going to be playing down after y'all sawmill.
19:48You know the one.
19:49The one on the riverbank right outside Closdale.
19:51Yeah, yeah.
19:52We're going to 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're going to get punky like a Mississippi donkey, y'all.
20:08All right, get a drink on the twins when you get there.
20:11All right, where did 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.
20:22I'm preaching, boy.
20:27Curling.
20:29Curling.
20:30Mm.
20:32I'm married, by the way.
20:34Happy?
20:35Careful, boy.
20:37You're going to bite off more than you can chew.
20:42Maybe I'll see you tonight.
20:49Okay.
20:56Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
20:58She's a white one staring at you.
21:00Shit.
21:02You sure she white?
21:05She walking over here right now.
21:06All right, now let's go.
21:07Excuse me, boy.
21:08Is this here smoke?
21:11Or is this stack?
21:12Don't look at her.
21:14Just over there and keep playing.
21:16Yeah, it's okay.
21:20You know I waited for you.
21:22Well, I don't know how in the hell you're going to 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.
21:37It'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 without a fucking word?
21:45Or 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 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.
22:01Who won't be.
22:03Rotten hell, stack.
22:05Shit, I will.
22:10Save your trap when there's a room.
22:12Right next to me.
22:14Shit.
22:15Where you staying?
22:17Who?
22:19They be saying why.
22:21Boys get to getting.
22:22Come on, Slim.
22:25They take us to this big house full of white folks.
22:29Pass around right here and have us to play.
22:31See these white folks who you playing for?
22:34They're real money.
22:36Had to have played them old ragtime songs.
22:38Oh, sure was.
22:40They playing a fair amount of blues, too.
22:43Didn't pick a wood with nodding their heads, stomping their feet.
22:47Some of them was almost on the rhythm.
22:48All right.
22:50All right.
22:51And then Rice and me, we changed it up confusingly.
22:52Mm-hmm.
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?
23:17He took out all his money to pay for the two-dollar train ticket.
23:23Train conductor saw him.
23:25Clank got a hold to him.
23:27Searched his pockets to find all that money.
23:30Met 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 what he cut off the man's rule?
24:01Come on now, y'all.
24:02That's all I got to handle.
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.
25:26Juke 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.
26:17Now, don't sell nothing that's on the way home.
26:20I 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.
26:48I 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.
27:07I've seen men die
27:08ways I didn't even know it was possible.
27:11I ain't never saw no roots.
27:14No demons.
27:15No ghosts.
27:17No magic.
27:20Just power.
27:22And only money
27:24can get at.
27:27You fool.
27:29All that war
27:30and whatever the hell
27:31you been doing in Chicago.
27:34Are you back here in front of me?
27:37Two arms,
27:38two legs,
27:39two eyes,
27:39and a brain that work?
27:41How you know I ain't pray
27:43and work every route
27:45my grandmama taught me
27:46to keep you
27:47and that crazy brother
27:48you're safe
27:48every day since you've been gone.
27:55So why those roots
27:56ain't work on our baby then?
28:02I don't know.
28:06but they work for you.
28:18You still got that mojo bag.
28:20Hey.
28:23Hey.
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'll miss you.
30:02It still hurts coming back here.
30:23It still hurts coming back here.
30:24It still hurts coming back here.
30:24It still hurts coming back here.
30:24It still hurts coming back here.
30:25It still hurts coming back here.
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