Life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield.Life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield.Life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield.
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Paul Butterfield
- Self
- (archive footage)
Mike Bloomfield
- Self - Guitarist
- (archive footage)
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Did you know
- Quotes
Paul Butterfield: It's such a personal instrument. It's really like a horn from the heart.
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Very Good and Unintentionally Revealing
I enjoyed watching this and only wish that more music had been included and perhaps fewer still photos. The film did its best job describing Butterfield's single-mindedness and saturation in the South Chicago blues scene. It was amazing to learn that he had training in the flute as a boy, but picked up the harmonica and mastered it so quickly. One big minus is that these kinds of documentaries are too often hagiographies and certainly this becomes so toward the end as ridiculous excuses are made for his self-destructive, narcissistic drug addiction and neglect of his children. The film tries to maintain that despite being stoned he was still a musician's musician. Nevertheless they show a long performance days before his death that show him playing a piano (!), looking 25 years older than his age and singing like a shadow of himself.
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- labcbaker
- Feb 8, 2024
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $58,597
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,086
- Oct 21, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $58,597
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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By what name was Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story (2017) officially released in Canada in English?
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