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(CLARKSDALE, MS) – A critically acclaimed new film celebrating the raw, raucous spirit of Mississippi's surviving blues scene will have its film festival premiere on Saturday, Feb. 7 at the Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Miss. The film, M for Mississippi: A Road Trip through the Birthplace of the Blues, follows two blues producers – Roger Stolle of Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art and Jeff Konkel of Broke & Hungry Records – on a weeklong journey across Mississippi visiting a dozen… Continue

"Easily one of the best documentary films made about the blues in years."
—Blues & Rhythm Magazine

“For fans of that real deal, rough and ragged Mississippi Delta blues, it doesn't get much better than this.”
—Big City Blues Magazine

"M for Mississippi is an intimate look into the heads and hearts of a generation of Delta blues originals . . . who play in unusual tunings on guitars that carry their age like the rusted tractors that dot the Southern landscape."
—Blues Revue Magazine

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(CLARKSDALE, MS.) – Recently hailed by Living Blues Magazine as ranking “among the most important blues events of 2008,” the new documentary M FOR MISSISSIPPI has now been nominated for a Blues Music Award as DVD of the Year.

The film celebrates the raw, raucous spirit of the current Mississippi blues scene by following blues producers Jeff Konkel and Roger Stolle on a weeklong journey across the state as they visit a dozen of the state’s most fascinating blues figures. The duo’s journey, captu… Continue

M FOR MISSISSIPPI is the focus of the latest episode of the Mississippi Arts Hour, a radio production of Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

The show's host Larry Morrissey discusses the film with its creators Jeff Konkel, Roger Stolle and Damien Blaylock. To hear the edisode online, visit http://www.arts.state.ms.us/podcast/index.htm and scroll down to the Dec. 4 episode.