The film stars musician Willis Earl Beal, who spends his time “surrounded by beautiful women, legendary musicians, a stone-cold-hustler, a righteous preacher, and a wolfpack of kids,” while working less on his music and more on the state of his soul.
Cinematography
Chris Doyle's hazy Memphis becomes a character itself.
Acting
Willis Earl Beal's raw, non-professional presence.
Sound
Sound design that breathes like the city at 3am.
Director
Tim Sutton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Willis Earl Beal was a real Chicago musician who posted flyers offering to sing you a song for a call; Sutton cast him after discovering his outsider mythology.
Shot in the same Memphis neighborhoods where Sun Records birthed rock, the film inverts that myth—here music dies in the same streets.
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