Full Moon Lightnin
About this original series
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# Episodes
4 episodes -
Rating
TV-UN
Episodes of Full Moon Lightnin
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Floyd Lee WROX Full Moon Lightnin EXTRA
Days before we arrived in Clarksdale, Jimbo Mathus was busy setting up a new recording studio in the old WROX radio station. The WROX building had been boarded up since the early 50's and oddly enough everything looked as it did 50 years ago. Even the old microphones were still sitting in the same spot. In 1947, WROX hired Early Wright as the first black disc jockey in the south. The station featured many famous artists, including Elvis Presley and B.B. King, who would come by to play on the a...
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Release date
Jan 15, 2008
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Runtime
04:46
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Floyd Lee Sun Studio Full Moon Lightnin EXTRA
What hasn’t already been said about the legendary Sun Studio. It’s the birthplace of Rock and Roll where the King himself, Elvis Presley, cut his first records…as did other notables like Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison. But what is often overlooked is the founder of Sun Studio, Sam Phillips, was consumed by the sound of the blues. In fact, it was the blues that lured Phillips to Memphis so that he could record black musicians from the Delta. In the early 50’s, years before Elvis c...
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Release date
Jan 15, 2008
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Runtime
04:20
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Full Moon Lightnin Documentary Trailer
has been over 60 years since New York City bluesman, Floyd Lee, left the hill country of Mississippi, and with his exodus he turned his back on a troubled childhood and a harsh life in the cotton fields. Abandoned by a mother he never knew, Floyd still wrestles with unanswered questions to his mysterious and painful past. Now at the age of 73, Floyd and his band embark on a deeply personal journey back home to Mississippi to reconnect with the family he left behind and search for the family he...
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Release date
Jan 15, 2008
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Runtime
01:11
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Floyd Lee Ground Zero Full Moon Lightnin
Discontent with the available places to hear live blues music, actor Morgan Freeman and his business partner Bill Luckett opened the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The idea was to bring back the look and feel of an old juke joint (sans the gambling and corn liquor) while creating a stable safe place where the best Delta blues could be heard. Before Ground Zero, impromptu gigs would spring up with little notice in Clarksdale...live music at best was a catch as catch can situ...
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Release date
Jan 15, 2008
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Runtime
06:16
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