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.
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.
01:22And 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.
03:38He married me.
03:44Turn fest and break out someают.
03:45I'm gonna can't.
04:04I'm gonna change my mind.
04:05I'm gonna change my mind.
04:06I'm gonna change my mind.
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
06:09hey
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
07:22now 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 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
11:12not
11:22you
11:24you
11:24you
11:27you
11:29Oh, my God.
11:58Oh, my God.
12:27Oh, my God dragged in.
12:32Where's your brother?
12:34All right, listen.
12:34Every coup's got a button on towards the top.
12:37And you want to keep them on.
12:39You find it, lick that.
12:42Not too hard, not 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.
13:29All right, I'm not sure.
13:33Dylan!
13:35Lock my fingers.
13:37Yeah, just get your own damn thing, huh?
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 doing better before you shot me in the ass.
13:56Why in the hell are 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.
14:05J'all 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.
14:32Well, who 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.
14:43Listen, 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.
18:4115.
18:4116.
18:4416.
18:4616.
18:47unless us that i play i get as much corn liquor as i can drink
18:54center like me i can't ask for more than that oh slim i'll drink today
19:08oh what you got devil what is it's an irish beer straight from the north side of chicago
19:17you say that's beer when they bring us down here empty handed
19:32nah good i got 500 more bottles just like that ice cold
19:45these two gonna be playing down after y'all saw mill you know the one the one on the river
19:49bank right outside clotsdale yeah yeah we gonna have us battling the blues y'all ready to eat
19:56y'all ready to drink y'all ready to sweat till y'all stack we don't get funky like a
20:01mississippi
20:02don't y'all
20:08all right get a drink on the twins when you get there
20:11i've seen you somewhere before maybe same don't you time to time i'm preachable
20:31i'm married by the way happy careful boy you're gonna bite off more than you can chew
20:42maybe i'll see you tonight
20:43all right
20:56hey hey hey so i won't stand at you
21:02you sure she right she walking over here right now
21:06all right excuse me boy is this here smoke or is this stack
21:12don't don't look at her just over there and keep playing yeah 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 i heard you loud and clear but then you stuck your tongue in my coos and
21:33fucked me so hard i figured you changed your mind keep your voice down now mary it's not exactly how
21:39i remember it oh it ain't remember falling asleep with your head on my chest leaving in the middle
21:43of the night without a fucking word or a note the hell are you doing back here i buried my
21:48mama yesterday
21:49stack figured i might see you and smoke there as much she looked after you both but i guess y
21:55'all
21:55love lasted as long as y'all could get something out of her you're right that's all she was fool
22:01i won't be a lot in hell stack i will
22:10save your trap when there's the room right next to me
22:15where you stay who
22:19maybe she ain't why boys get to getting come on slim
22:25they take us to this big house full of white folks
22:29that's around right here and have us to play see these white folks we're playing for
22:33that real money
22:36that's not playing them old ragtime songs oh sure was he playing a fair amount of blues too
22:43didn't take a wood with nodding their heads stomping their feet
22:46some of them was almost on the rhythm
22:50and arrest me we changed it up confusing
22:56see white folks they like the blues just fine they 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 they was going to take that money going out to little rock start him a little church did he
23:15that damn fool he took out all this money to pay for the two dollar train ticket
23:23train conductor saw him plank got a hold to him
23:27searched his pockets found all that money made up a story about him
23:31killing some white man for it and raping that white man's wife
23:35and then lynching right there in the railroad station
23:42do you know they cut off the man rule
24:00come on now y'all get that guitar i gonna hear
24:04hey
24:28pop is here
24:33pop is here
24:54how you been
24:55what do you mean
24:56no misery is worth complaining about
25:05you come along
25:11yeah stack on the other side time
25:15come back full
25:20you bought that old saw ma'am
25:22yeah we're gonna patch it up
25:24make it into a juke joint
25:26juke joint
25:29this one of the stacks i did
25:31yeah you figure tonight gonna be a grand opening
25:33we got word they gonna make booze legal again
25:36i figured it's our last chance to go legit
25:38i thought y'all was done with the delta
25:40that's that hood y'all were northern men
25:42uh-uh uh-uh we through with chicago
25:45chicago through with 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 and a pinch of hydrant
26:16all right now 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
26:25thank you
26:29i can't believe you taking this made-believe
26:32shit smoke give me my money for i cut your black ass
26:35you gonna put that blade up woman
26:38i'll trade you i don't want your money
26:40don't be stupid now i ain't stupid
26:42your money come with blood all money come with blood baby
26:45not like yours
26:46this she won't even spend nowhere else
26:48i ain't going nowhere else i don't need that curse money you got
26:56you know woman i've been all over this world because
27:03ships train
27:07i've seen men die ways i didn't even know it was possible
27:12i ain't never saw no roots
27:13no demons no ghosts no magic
27:20just power
27:23and only money can get at
27:27you fool
27:29all that war and whatever the hell's 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
28:03i don't know
28:06but they work for you
28:18you still got that mojo bae
28:20you still got that mojo bae
28:39you still got that mojo bae
29:00but i don't feel like that mojo bae
29:18Why 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.
30:02You won't let me say it.
30:04You won't let me say it.
30:09You won't let me say it.
30:24You won't let me say it.
30:24I love you.
30:25You won't let me say it.
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