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I'm Willie Dixon.
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And I'm making this here audio recording
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so that when you visit
Chess Recording Studio,
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you know the history.
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Now, the first time a gal took off her
underwear and threw them on stage
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it was on account of
a fella singing the blues.
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Now, when the white girls started doing it,
they called that rock and roll.
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Took a whole lot of people to make
the music that changed the world.
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Yes, sir. This story ain't just about me.
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It all started with two men.
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One a white boy from Chicago.
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Len, when are we getting married?
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A witness for my Lord
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The other a sharecropper
from Mississippi.
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Say, who was a witness?
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The year was 1941.
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Say, Daniel was a witness
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When are we getting married?
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I don't have the money.
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I told you I'd be fine without it.
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Well, I wouldn't.
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You don't know what it did to my father.
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I can't watch you go hungry.
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Da.
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Oh, how you doing, Mr. Feder?
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Hi, Dad.
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I want to marry her.
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Mr. Feder, I don't know if I told you,
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but I've been making plans to get out of
the junk business.
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I'm gonna open a club here.
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In the Negro neighborhood?
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Yeah. It's gonna be for Negroes.
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You're taking Shelly to Negro clubs?
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No, of course not.
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No, I'm just...
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I'd like you to know that
I'm making plans for the future.
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So, you are serious
about this marriage then?
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Yeah.
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I mean, when I can afford it.
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Your father and I, we come from
the same shithole in Poland.
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I didn't travel all this way
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to have my daughter marry some schmuck
from the same village.
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What did you say?
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- What did you say?
- Get in.
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Leonard.
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Don't worry where I'm from.
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My wife's gonna drive a Cadillac.
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Now, who is this here?
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Go on, get in the house now.
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McKinley Morganfield?
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Yes, sir?
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I'm Alan Lomax,
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and this is Mr. John Work
from Fisk University.
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- How you doing?
- Fine. You?
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I'm recording folk music
for the Library of Congress.
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Folk music?
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Could you move into the mike
a little bit for me? Thanks.
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Play that thing, man.
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That's what I sound like, huh?
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Yes, sir, that's what you sound like.
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Feel like I'm meeting myself
for the first time.
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And he was. And he knew
it was a man he was meeting,
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too big for that slave
shack he was born in
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and too big for that plantation.
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Now, the acoustic guitar
was fine down south,
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because there's nothing but miles of
empty fields out your window.
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But in the city, with all
them streetcars and automobiles,
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you couldn't get yourself heard.
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Hey, boy, ain't nobody want to hear
that sharecropping music.
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Take that shit back down there
to Mississippi.
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Hey.
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You're disturbing the peace!
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Why you want to cut me for, girl?
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You have been giving that same smile
to girls all morning.
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You must have three addresses
in your pocket.
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Addresses?
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No.
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- You're trouble. You know that?
- I know.
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How about you?
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You got to go, before my mama brings
the boys home. Come on.
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- Maybe those boys need a daddy.
- You're not daddy material.
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I'm not good enough for you?
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I don't talk as good as you
or something, huh?
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When I heard you start playing that music
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it took me someplace so good, Muddy.
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So good.
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Here you go, baby.
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Are you the owner of this club?
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Yes, I am.
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Isabella Allen. I make race records.
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Len Chess. How you doing? Wow.
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This is a beauty.
God, look at the lines on this thing.
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It's incredible.
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You can buy a car like this
making race records?
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If you find the right singer.
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Hey, I'd love to know
if you hear someone special.
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A record producer, huh?
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There'd be something in it for you.
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All right.
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Sweet. That's a beautiful car.
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You looking for girls?
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Excuse me? No, I'm opening a club.
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I don't mind you getting
men all liquored up
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but I lost two daughters to bluesmen.
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Dangerous business you in.
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What are you doing?
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When Muddy met Little Walter,
he was just 17 years old,
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but he was the greatest harp
player that ever lived.
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That's it. That's all of it.
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- Yeah, man.
- Play that for me.
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I'll give you $1
if you let me strum that guitar.
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I can busk more than your dollar.
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- I'll give you $2.
- You a headhunter?
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You fixing to chop my head off
with my own guitar? Man.
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Shit, you can't play better than me.
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Let me see the guitar, man.
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Hey, big guy,
your daddy sure can cook, huh?
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You're not gonna take care of Walter?
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Oh, I don't drink none of that.
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Good for you, Walter.
I'll make you a nice bath.
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Okay, thank you, ma'am.
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Why you got a gun?
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- In case in any good guys need shooting.
- You mean the bad guys?
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I is the bad guy.
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Hush now, scaring my boys,
and let me hear some of that harp.
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Okay, okay.
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Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
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- Where in the hell you going?
- Follow me now. Come on.
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No, no, no. No, look here.
You follow this guitar, son.
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"Son"?
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You can play the shit out of that guitar,
so I'll follow you anywhere you want,
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but don't you ever be
calling me no "son. "
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Okay?
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- I don't need no daddy.
- No, boy, what you need is a mama.
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Someone who will feed you and clothe you
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and tell you to get
your behind in that bath.
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Well, you know what they say, now.
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A man can't have too many mamas.
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And you don't need this. You need soap.
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He fit me, Geneva.
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I heard.
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He fit me.
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They was a family now.
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Little Walter, Muddy Waters
and Jimmy Rogers
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called themselves
"The All-Star Trio,"
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but everybody else knew
them as "The Headhunters"
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on account of how
they sliced their competition.
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Will you help me out here?
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- Get your own gig, motherfucker!
- Let them play!
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- Get out of the way, Mud.
- Fucking son of a bitch!
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This is between me and this motherfucker.
Get out the way, Mud.
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- Son...
- I told you never to be calling me that.
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I know you did. But we family now.
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Then what the fuck you doing, Mud?
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Give me that pistol.
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I ain't trying to boss you.
But you're just too good to lose.
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We'll burn Chicago down if you don't
get your ass locked up or killed.
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- You think I never used this before?
- I know you did.
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Then you know I'll shoot
this whole motherfucker up then.
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But you ain't got to use it tonight.
If he foolish enough to come after you
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I'll put the bullet in him my damn self.
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You a crazy motherfucker, Mud.
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Run, motherfucker! Run!
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You can get out of here, too.
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I'll talk this peckerwood
into not calling the police.
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Oh, okay.
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Sorry about that, chief.
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Sorry about the damage, boss.
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Yeah, you fucked up my place. You...
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Yes, sir. It's a damn shame, boss.
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Just get out.
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Here. There you go.
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Appreciate it.
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Fucked up my shit.
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Ain't never see them pitchers?
Here's how you do it.
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When you get that ball,
you gonna kick that leg over.
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You gonna throw that thing
way up there like that.
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Been looking all over for you.
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We're just here working, sir.
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I thought we was all right, boss.
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Stop talking to me
like I'm some damn plantation owner.
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What the fuck you want then?
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I want to put you on a record.
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- A record?
- Yeah, that's right.
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You're kidding.
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No, sir, boss.
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Let me get this straight now.
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We shoot up half your whole joint,
and now you want to put us on a record.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I hear good things about you.
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- When do you want to do this?
- Right now. The studio's booked.
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- But I got to get my band.
- No, you don't.
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Not the crazy harp-playing motherfucker,
you don't. No. Just you.
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You want to do this?
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- Yeah.
- Come on. Studio's booked.
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Well, I'm going away to leave
Won't be back no more
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Going back down south, child...
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Now, Leonard Chess didn't
worry none about skin color.
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It was the color of them
bills that mattered.
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Just get you enough
green to cover yourself
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and then you ain't
no Jew-boy no more.
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And you ain't no
colored boy either.
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You're just a man with a Cadillac.
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It's so beautiful!
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- Do we have enough?
- Hi, baby. Stop with the "enough. "
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This is America. The word is "more. "
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I like the way your husband thinks.
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You must be Muddy.
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I'm Revetta. I love your record.
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Thank you. Pleasure to meet you.
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I packed for a week. Will that be enough?
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Yeah, that ought to be good.
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I think she's asking,
how long are you gonna be gone.
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Come here. Hey.
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Close your eyes.
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A little friend to keep you company
while I'm gone.
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There you go.
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- Can we afford this?
- Don't worry about it. It's classy.
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Thank you.
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I tell you, that's a whole lot of ocean.
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Take a hell of a lot
to get me to cross it.
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How come you didn't stay your ass
in Poland?
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How come you didn't stay your ass
in Mississippi?
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Len knew the only way
to make it big was radio.
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And that meant taking
Muddy back down South.
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- Thank you very much.
- The man don't need no more Scotch.
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I got a hell of a mortgage.
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Shit.
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Yeah, I got one of those.
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I tell you what.
Throw this record on the table.
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It pays off everybody's.
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Leonard...
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If people buy Muddy's record,
I got to make more.
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Then I'm into you every month.
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Yeah, but I got to be fair, you know.
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I know you got to be fair.
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The motherfuckers bring in the
Glenfiddich and the Johnnie Walker.
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But you got to ask yourself,
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do they really stand up
to Jackson and Grant?
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I don't bribe deejays.
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I do.
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You realize he doesn't care
about your music.
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It's just about the money with him.
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Everybody, this is the newest race
music right out of Chicago.
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You're on your own.
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Now, in the South, whites and coloreds
didn't ride around in the same car
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unless the colored
man was chauffeuring.
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Fuck Mississippi police.
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You got to bless them.
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- All right, easy. Thank you.
- Hey, you gotta bless them.
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- It's very good.
- Room service.
252
00:20:52,551 --> 00:20:53,984
Well, hello.
253
00:20:54,086 --> 00:20:56,850
- We heard you on the radio.
- Come on in.
254
00:21:01,526 --> 00:21:04,188
No, he don't bite. And I don't either.
255
00:21:06,231 --> 00:21:07,823
Play it, Daddy.
256
00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:10,625
Yeah.
257
00:21:12,204 --> 00:21:13,694
Don't rush it.
258
00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:19,210
Don't step on it now.
That's Chicago's heartbeat.
259
00:21:19,978 --> 00:21:21,411
Go on, now.
260
00:21:24,216 --> 00:21:26,650
You've got such hair.
261
00:21:27,352 --> 00:21:29,343
Play that for me, Daddy.
262
00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:31,820
I lied to you, girl.
263
00:21:31,923 --> 00:21:33,652
Yeah, I like that.
264
00:21:37,829 --> 00:21:42,596
- Where you going? Don't leave us alone.
- I'll swing one over your way.
265
00:21:42,701 --> 00:21:44,362
I'm married.
266
00:21:44,469 --> 00:21:46,767
Yeah, and they ain't redhead.
267
00:21:49,107 --> 00:21:50,699
That's bullshit.
268
00:21:53,345 --> 00:21:56,974
Yeah, that's right. Come on, Daddy.
Come on back.
269
00:21:57,616 --> 00:21:59,811
Preacher lay his Bible down.
270
00:22:02,788 --> 00:22:06,121
We're coming straight to you
from down in the Delta
271
00:22:08,460 --> 00:22:11,156
with Muddy Waters and his hit record.
272
00:22:11,596 --> 00:22:13,461
That's right. Sunshine, how you doing?
273
00:22:13,565 --> 00:22:17,729
I want to say a big hello, if I can,
to everybody down in Coahoma County.
274
00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:21,431
They got a whole mess of bluesmen
working Mississippi fields.
275
00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:24,134
When I was out there I used to sing...
276
00:22:24,242 --> 00:22:27,700
Time don't get no better
277
00:22:27,813 --> 00:22:30,145
Up the road I'm going
278
00:22:30,415 --> 00:22:33,942
So, you know,
I want to thank old Len Chess here for
279
00:22:34,286 --> 00:22:36,277
giving Muddy Water a chance to shine.
280
00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:38,583
Does that mean you're staying
where you are?
281
00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,352
Because I know some labels down here
who'd love to snap you up.
282
00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:45,954
Well, they can try all they want to,
but I belong to the Chess family.
283
00:22:46,765 --> 00:22:48,790
We're gonna play a little something
from Muddy Waters right now.
284
00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:49,389
Lay it on me.
285
00:22:50,769 --> 00:22:53,533
It was kind, what you said on the radio.
286
00:22:53,638 --> 00:22:58,632
You know, starting a business together,
it is like starting a family.
287
00:22:58,744 --> 00:23:00,405
Appreciate that.
288
00:23:00,712 --> 00:23:05,308
Yeah, well, how come, then,
you need me to sign this thing?
289
00:23:08,186 --> 00:23:10,677
That's what people do in business.
290
00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:15,927
You know, you got a
power with that guitar.
291
00:23:16,928 --> 00:23:20,489
Amazing. It even put three women
in your bed last night.
292
00:23:20,599 --> 00:23:22,567
Yeah, but you married.
293
00:23:22,667 --> 00:23:25,761
I like another kind of broad.
Does that bother you?
294
00:23:25,871 --> 00:23:27,099
What's that gonna bother me for?
295
00:23:27,205 --> 00:23:31,403
I'm just saying, it doesn't make me
like them. And that's not me.
296
00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:33,137
I'm not that.
297
00:23:34,513 --> 00:23:36,071
Who is you?
298
00:23:37,349 --> 00:23:39,613
Sign the contract and find out.
299
00:23:40,952 --> 00:23:42,146
You got a pen there?
300
00:23:42,254 --> 00:23:43,585
All right.
301
00:23:43,688 --> 00:23:46,953
This is the newest race music
right out of Chicago.
302
00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:50,561
And I want you to remember this name.
303
00:23:50,662 --> 00:23:52,220
Muddy Waters.
304
00:23:53,265 --> 00:23:56,257
The last time I signed something
like this, I got married.
305
00:23:56,368 --> 00:23:58,700
Well, that's what this is.
306
00:23:58,804 --> 00:24:00,772
Till death do us part.
307
00:24:04,543 --> 00:24:07,376
By the way, the car's yours.
308
00:24:09,114 --> 00:24:11,708
- What do you mean?
- You earned it.
309
00:24:29,868 --> 00:24:31,768
Muddy! Listen!
310
00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:36,339
Now playing Muddy Waters'
Can't Be Satisfied, WGES Chicago.
311
00:24:36,441 --> 00:24:37,669
It's you!
312
00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:42,177
- Come on in here.
- No! I got to go to work!
313
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,807
- Come on in, Mama.
- Muddy, don't! Muddy!
314
00:25:03,468 --> 00:25:05,527
On a Sunday night,
315
00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:08,504
when no one happened
to be in Len's club,
316
00:25:08,607 --> 00:25:12,099
the Macomba mysteriously
burned down.
317
00:25:16,882 --> 00:25:18,076
Hi, Daddy.
318
00:25:18,183 --> 00:25:22,085
He put the insurance money
into this here recording studio.
319
00:25:25,624 --> 00:25:26,591
Hi.
320
00:25:28,693 --> 00:25:31,355
Hi, baby. Hi, there. How you doing?
321
00:25:32,163 --> 00:25:34,495
Look. It's coming along, huh?
322
00:25:36,601 --> 00:25:40,093
- We're late on our mortgage again, Len.
- Yeah.
323
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:44,373
- It's gonna have to wait.
- You're gambling our home.
324
00:25:44,976 --> 00:25:49,470
- Yeah. And we're gonna win big.
- And if we don't?
325
00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:54,143
I won't let you down, babe.
326
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,382
I won't let you down.
327
00:25:56,488 --> 00:26:00,185
- Dave, show her the... Spin the thing.
- Sure thing.
328
00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:01,850
You see this?
329
00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:08,833
Chess Records was the best studio
in Chicago.
330
00:26:08,934 --> 00:26:10,925
Had a sound nobody could touch.
331
00:26:11,036 --> 00:26:12,833
Tie me up. Come on.
332
00:26:19,044 --> 00:26:21,569
- Did everybody see?
- You guys better watch out now.
333
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,205
Little Walter getting electrified!
334
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,048
He's amplifying a fucking harmonica.
335
00:26:28,153 --> 00:26:31,213
Wait, Chess. Let him try it.
Watch it now.
336
00:26:31,323 --> 00:26:33,723
- All right. Go ahead.
- Take one.
337
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:38,719
Forty days and forty nights
338
00:26:39,397 --> 00:26:42,195
Since my baby left this town
339
00:26:44,202 --> 00:26:46,932
He's blowing all over Muddy's vocals.
I got to cut.
340
00:26:47,038 --> 00:26:48,505
No, hold on.
341
00:26:49,474 --> 00:26:52,136
But the rain keep coming down
342
00:26:55,747 --> 00:26:58,682
She my life, I need her so
343
00:26:59,684 --> 00:27:01,879
Why she left I just don't know
344
00:27:01,987 --> 00:27:03,011
Let it ride.
345
00:27:03,121 --> 00:27:05,021
You can't record a record
with harmonica all over the place.
346
00:27:05,123 --> 00:27:06,112
Yeah, we can.
347
00:27:06,257 --> 00:27:07,622
Forty days...
348
00:27:07,726 --> 00:27:08,784
Okay.
349
00:27:08,893 --> 00:27:10,724
and forty nights
350
00:27:11,229 --> 00:27:13,993
Since I set right down and cried
351
00:27:16,334 --> 00:27:19,269
Keep raining all the time
352
00:27:20,238 --> 00:27:22,900
But the river running dry
353
00:27:26,678 --> 00:27:29,272
Lord help me, it just ain't right
354
00:27:30,415 --> 00:27:33,248
I love that girl
with all of my might
355
00:27:37,622 --> 00:27:39,021
It works.
356
00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:43,253
Now that's a record.
357
00:27:43,361 --> 00:27:44,828
- You like that?
- Yeah.
358
00:27:44,929 --> 00:27:46,521
Walter got a record. Let's lay it down.
359
00:27:46,631 --> 00:27:49,759
- Oh, yeah?
- You want to hear?
360
00:27:49,868 --> 00:27:51,995
Why don't you and Jimmy back him up?
361
00:27:52,103 --> 00:27:55,072
You caught me on a good day.
Where's Belo at?
362
00:27:55,173 --> 00:27:56,640
Take one.
363
00:28:23,668 --> 00:28:25,465
Boss, this your new shit?
364
00:28:25,570 --> 00:28:28,232
Yeah. You like it, huh?
365
00:28:28,873 --> 00:28:31,273
- Go park it, motherfucker.
- What?
366
00:28:31,643 --> 00:28:33,577
Park it at your house.
367
00:28:37,148 --> 00:28:40,345
Oh, Jenny, you see this shit?
Wait till these motherfuckers see me now.
368
00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:43,285
- You my white daddy?
- You're getting carried away again.
369
00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:47,791
Man, oh, man. Oh, boy.
Black folks riding around in Cadillacs.
370
00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:49,359
Feel like I died and gone to heaven.
371
00:28:49,461 --> 00:28:52,089
Walter, this is Willie Dixon.
He's gonna write some songs for us.
372
00:28:52,197 --> 00:28:54,461
- How you doing?
- I like what you do with that harp, man.
373
00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:56,261
- Wrote a killer song for you.
- You did?
374
00:28:56,367 --> 00:28:58,597
I know how the girls love you so much.
It's called My Babe.
375
00:28:58,703 --> 00:29:02,161
My Babe? This is my
babe right here. Come on, girl.
376
00:29:03,208 --> 00:29:05,904
Hey, Len, I wrote a song for Muddy, too.
377
00:29:06,010 --> 00:29:08,638
Oh, yeah? Muddy don't need no help.
378
00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,647
Oh, man.
I admit he's good and everything,
379
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:13,513
but, I mean,
all his songs sound the damn same.
380
00:29:14,085 --> 00:29:17,248
Muddy Waters needs something
that shows him off.
381
00:29:17,355 --> 00:29:19,346
Well, we'll see what you got.
382
00:29:22,026 --> 00:29:24,324
Here's your riff right there.
383
00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:27,095
Ain't nothing to that.
384
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,134
Gypsy woman told my mother
385
00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:35,372
Before I was born
386
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:39,273
You got you a boy child coming...
387
00:29:39,377 --> 00:29:42,676
Now Muddy was Muddy
way before I came along.
388
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:45,245
I just took his persona
389
00:29:45,350 --> 00:29:48,786
and put it in words
that everybody could understand.
390
00:29:49,554 --> 00:29:53,422
I mean, it was simple. He was
the cat every man wanted to be
391
00:29:53,525 --> 00:29:55,925
and every woman wanted to love.
392
00:29:56,928 --> 00:29:58,293
And Muddy,
393
00:29:58,396 --> 00:30:01,524
well, he just kept
growing into that man.
394
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,626
Everybody knows I'm him
395
00:30:10,508 --> 00:30:13,841
Well, you know I'm the
hoochie coochie man
396
00:30:15,213 --> 00:30:18,182
Everybody knows I'm him
397
00:30:24,589 --> 00:30:26,557
I got a black cat bone
398
00:30:27,892 --> 00:30:29,689
I got a mojo, too
399
00:30:31,296 --> 00:30:33,127
I got the Johnny conkeroo
400
00:30:34,399 --> 00:30:36,264
I'm gonna mess with you
401
00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:39,633
I'm gonna make you girls
402
00:30:41,272 --> 00:30:43,103
Lead me by my hand
403
00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:46,303
Then the world will know...
404
00:30:47,278 --> 00:30:50,611
People started realizing
that if you can play the guitar
405
00:30:50,748 --> 00:30:54,844
and sing your ass off,
you could be badder than Superman.
406
00:30:55,587 --> 00:30:59,853
And that was a strong feeling
for a black man in the '50s.
407
00:31:06,998 --> 00:31:08,260
How you doing, darling?
408
00:31:16,341 --> 00:31:18,172
On the seventh hour
409
00:31:19,477 --> 00:31:21,377
On the seventh day
410
00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:24,510
On the seventh month
411
00:31:26,017 --> 00:31:27,882
Seven doctors say
412
00:31:29,454 --> 00:31:31,513
He was born for good luck
413
00:31:32,991 --> 00:31:34,891
That you'll see
414
00:31:36,127 --> 00:31:38,152
I got seven hundred dollar
415
00:31:38,930 --> 00:31:41,364
Don't you mess with me
416
00:31:45,103 --> 00:31:48,664
I'm about to lay this down right
now, boss. I'm ready.
417
00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:56,370
You're messing up my groove, boss.
418
00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:03,785
Who dead?
419
00:32:05,223 --> 00:32:06,690
Your mother.
420
00:32:07,392 --> 00:32:09,826
Your family called a deejay
down in New Orleans.
421
00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:12,328
They've been trying to find you.
422
00:32:13,865 --> 00:32:16,800
Maybe you need to take a little time off.
423
00:32:20,505 --> 00:32:22,439
What am I supposed to do with that, boss?
424
00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:24,770
Go home and bury your mother.
425
00:32:27,312 --> 00:32:28,574
Walter.
426
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:31,445
Y'all ready?
427
00:32:32,116 --> 00:32:33,344
Shit.
428
00:32:36,454 --> 00:32:40,584
I was in my groove, man.
Now I can't even find my shit.
429
00:32:44,829 --> 00:32:46,763
Go home. Nobody's expecting you
to go back in there.
430
00:32:46,864 --> 00:32:48,491
I'm expecting it.
431
00:32:50,501 --> 00:32:54,198
You know how many harp players out there
are waiting to chop my head?
432
00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:58,734
Not time to be wasting on this woman.
433
00:32:59,844 --> 00:33:03,280
That ain't "that woman. "
That's your mama, boy.
434
00:33:03,381 --> 00:33:05,679
What the hell I know about mamas?
435
00:33:08,586 --> 00:33:11,680
She let my daddy give me away
the day I was born.
436
00:33:11,789 --> 00:33:15,122
Well, she did the best
she could, I reckon.
437
00:33:15,226 --> 00:33:17,751
That's why this here be my mama.
438
00:33:19,897 --> 00:33:21,797
This here, right here.
439
00:33:21,899 --> 00:33:23,161
You know, Walter.
440
00:33:23,267 --> 00:33:26,134
You and me not gonna wake up
every morning and get everything we want.
441
00:33:26,237 --> 00:33:28,865
Mostly we got to take what come.
442
00:33:28,973 --> 00:33:32,465
And half the time,
that's gonna be a bunch of bullshit.
443
00:33:34,879 --> 00:33:38,838
Yeah. I just got to
get my mind back right.
444
00:33:40,551 --> 00:33:42,781
Go on and have you a taste.
445
00:33:43,187 --> 00:33:45,121
I don't need that.
That shit'll fuck me up.
446
00:33:45,223 --> 00:33:48,056
- Go on, boy.
- It's gonna fuck me up, man.
447
00:33:48,159 --> 00:33:49,592
Cool you out.
448
00:33:52,330 --> 00:33:54,321
Just a taste, huh?
449
00:33:58,302 --> 00:33:59,564
Fuck it.
450
00:34:11,449 --> 00:34:16,113
My baby don't stand
no cheating, my babe
451
00:34:17,455 --> 00:34:22,256
Oh, yeah, she don't stand
no cheating My babe
452
00:34:23,494 --> 00:34:26,224
Oh, yeah,
she don't stand no cheating
453
00:34:26,330 --> 00:34:29,493
She don't stand none
of that midnight creeping
454
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,068
I can't record this
if he handles the mike like that.
455
00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:34,001
Don't worry about it.
456
00:34:37,041 --> 00:34:39,771
We're playing Little
Walter's My Babe.
457
00:34:39,877 --> 00:34:42,437
Number one on the
charts this week.
458
00:34:42,947 --> 00:34:45,643
Little Walter was making
a name for himself.
459
00:34:46,084 --> 00:34:48,018
Every club on the chitlin circuit
460
00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:51,987
wanted that sharp,
swinging jump boy in the Cadillac.
461
00:34:53,157 --> 00:34:56,285
Now, ain't that sure enough
a goddamn shame?
462
00:34:56,627 --> 00:35:00,063
- What is that?
- A big-time recording artist like Little Walter
463
00:35:00,164 --> 00:35:04,362
driving around in that broken-down,
no-account short.
464
00:35:05,636 --> 00:35:07,831
- Let me out.
- Hold on, son.
465
00:35:08,906 --> 00:35:10,897
What is he doing now?
466
00:35:11,509 --> 00:35:15,240
"Little Walter and the motherfucking Jukes,"
huh? Ain't this some shit?
467
00:35:15,346 --> 00:35:19,214
Say, now, which one of you motherfuckers
is Little Walter?
468
00:35:19,317 --> 00:35:20,750
I am, fool.
469
00:35:21,986 --> 00:35:23,214
Okay.
470
00:35:26,357 --> 00:35:28,348
Bring your ass over here!
471
00:35:34,532 --> 00:35:36,261
Motherfucker taking
money out of my pocket.
472
00:35:36,367 --> 00:35:38,460
So what? He's stealing your gigs.
473
00:35:38,569 --> 00:35:40,434
He's stealing my name.
474
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:42,231
Shit.
475
00:35:42,340 --> 00:35:46,640
My baby don't stand no cheating,
my babe
476
00:35:48,446 --> 00:35:53,315
Oh, no, she don't stand no cheating
My babe
477
00:35:54,385 --> 00:35:57,354
Oh, no, she don't stand no cheating
478
00:35:57,455 --> 00:36:00,447
Everything she do she do so pleasing
479
00:36:00,558 --> 00:36:01,957
My baby...
480
00:36:02,059 --> 00:36:05,586
It was 1955 and we was hooked.
481
00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:10,894
On the music, on the cars,
on the women, on the life, baby.
482
00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:13,630
Oh, Lord, we had hot hands!
483
00:36:13,738 --> 00:36:17,265
...she don't stand no fooling, my babe
484
00:36:18,609 --> 00:36:21,703
Oh, yeah, she don't stand no fooling
485
00:36:21,812 --> 00:36:24,872
When she's hot, there ain't no cooling
486
00:36:24,982 --> 00:36:29,214
My babe, true little baby, my babe
487
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,289
- True little baby
- She's my baby
488
00:36:32,390 --> 00:36:35,416
- True little baby
- She's my baby
489
00:36:35,526 --> 00:36:38,461
- True little baby
- She's my baby
490
00:36:38,563 --> 00:36:41,361
- True little baby
- She's my baby
491
00:36:41,465 --> 00:36:43,524
- True little baby
- Come on
492
00:36:44,468 --> 00:36:46,060
- True little baby
- All right
493
00:36:47,605 --> 00:36:49,436
True little baby
494
00:36:50,441 --> 00:36:51,965
True little baby
495
00:36:53,611 --> 00:36:54,976
True little baby
496
00:36:56,547 --> 00:36:57,809
True little baby
497
00:36:58,182 --> 00:37:01,345
Hey, Mud. I want you to meet Wolf.
498
00:37:02,453 --> 00:37:05,251
Yeah, I hear we're from the same place.
499
00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:08,453
Is that right?
500
00:37:09,327 --> 00:37:10,817
Yeah, Wolf just signed with us.
501
00:37:10,928 --> 00:37:12,919
Yeah. Welcome to Cadillac Records.
502
00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:16,193
You stay around long enough,
everybody get one.
503
00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:18,464
Well, this old truck,
504
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:21,796
I own it.
505
00:37:22,340 --> 00:37:24,069
It don't own me.
506
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:29,603
Listen, I want to offer
you a $100 advance.
507
00:37:29,714 --> 00:37:32,478
I don't borrow against the store.
508
00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:35,211
You just pay me what you owe me.
509
00:37:35,319 --> 00:37:37,048
That's fair enough.
510
00:37:38,055 --> 00:37:39,454
Nice meeting y'all.
511
00:37:39,557 --> 00:37:41,684
Take care of yourself, baby.
512
00:37:53,170 --> 00:37:54,296
"It don't own me. "
513
00:37:54,405 --> 00:37:56,737
Motherfucker thinks
he goddamn John Wayne.
514
00:37:56,841 --> 00:37:57,933
He can sing, though.
515
00:37:58,042 --> 00:38:01,375
He gonna have to, because he
ain't getting the women on style.
516
00:38:01,479 --> 00:38:04,812
Any royalties come in
from Hoochie Coochie Man?
517
00:38:04,915 --> 00:38:07,145
I already gave that to you.
518
00:38:07,852 --> 00:38:09,410
How you figure?
519
00:38:10,121 --> 00:38:12,419
The Cadillac ain't free, Mud.
520
00:38:15,593 --> 00:38:16,753
Right.
521
00:38:17,361 --> 00:38:18,953
You need money?
522
00:38:21,465 --> 00:38:23,729
Well, Geneva want a house.
523
00:38:26,837 --> 00:38:28,737
I'll take care of it.
524
00:38:29,907 --> 00:38:31,272
All right.
525
00:38:33,511 --> 00:38:35,172
All you pretty women
526
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:38,274
Stand in line
527
00:38:39,183 --> 00:38:40,650
I can make love to you, baby
528
00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:43,711
In an hour's time
529
00:38:45,122 --> 00:38:47,022
Ain't that amazing?
530
00:39:06,844 --> 00:39:08,869
Where that baby come from?
531
00:39:11,082 --> 00:39:13,016
A woman came by today.
532
00:39:13,818 --> 00:39:15,683
She said she's yours.
533
00:39:16,754 --> 00:39:19,587
She said she couldn't take care
of her anymore.
534
00:39:19,690 --> 00:39:21,453
That's my baby?
535
00:40:06,704 --> 00:40:08,729
She's gonna need milk.
536
00:40:18,482 --> 00:40:20,746
I'll go on and get the milk.
537
00:40:23,988 --> 00:40:25,649
I'm a man
538
00:40:26,891 --> 00:40:28,586
I spell M...
539
00:40:38,602 --> 00:40:41,093
This here be a real nice home
you're making, Geneva.
540
00:40:42,807 --> 00:40:44,536
Thank you, Walter.
541
00:40:46,510 --> 00:40:49,240
That's why Muddy can go out there
and fetch the world.
542
00:40:49,346 --> 00:40:51,280
He's got big dreams.
543
00:40:51,382 --> 00:40:53,350
Here, let me help you.
544
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:57,451
- There, go ahead...
- What about you, though? Come on.
545
00:40:57,555 --> 00:40:59,955
You ain't got no dreams, girl?
546
00:41:00,558 --> 00:41:03,288
Somebody's got to have their feet
firmly planted on the ground.
547
00:41:03,394 --> 00:41:05,919
That's you, huh? That's you?
548
00:41:06,497 --> 00:41:09,364
Well, I say you take them off the ground.
549
00:41:11,068 --> 00:41:12,558
Taking care of all these kids.
550
00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:15,264
You know, you gone
and made a place for me to lay my head.
551
00:41:15,372 --> 00:41:17,567
Now, come here, now. Stop for a minute.
552
00:41:17,675 --> 00:41:20,109
Stop for a minute, now. Come here.
Play with me. Come on.
553
00:41:20,211 --> 00:41:21,644
Come on. Come on.
554
00:41:21,745 --> 00:41:23,235
Have a seat. Come on.
555
00:41:23,347 --> 00:41:26,339
Kick your feet up now.
Here go your drink.
556
00:41:30,454 --> 00:41:32,217
It's nice, right?
557
00:41:37,528 --> 00:41:39,689
Who be taking care of you?
558
00:41:40,264 --> 00:41:45,361
I see you running around here
taking care of everybody. You know?
559
00:41:46,904 --> 00:41:49,065
Who take care of Geneva?
560
00:41:53,744 --> 00:41:56,713
- Walter.
- What? What?
561
00:41:56,814 --> 00:41:59,408
- I'm Muddy's woman.
- He got a lot of women.
562
00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:02,410
He can spare one, huh?
563
00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:06,986
I'm sorry. I know.
564
00:42:07,391 --> 00:42:10,019
I know I'm a motherfucker. I know.
565
00:42:10,261 --> 00:42:12,991
You got no idea. I can't help myself.
I want to...
566
00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:16,692
I just want to see you happy, Geneva.
You know?
567
00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:19,563
Let me make you happy, baby.
568
00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:25,967
I love him.
569
00:42:28,779 --> 00:42:30,508
You have no idea
570
00:42:32,283 --> 00:42:34,751
how good that man has been to me.
571
00:42:41,825 --> 00:42:43,622
I'm half a woman, Walter.
572
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:50,864
I can't have any more babies.
573
00:42:53,337 --> 00:42:57,637
I can't give Muddy any
children of his own.
574
00:42:58,142 --> 00:42:59,905
- Don't cry, baby. Don't cry.
- No.
575
00:43:03,347 --> 00:43:06,646
Don't ever talk to me
about any of his other women.
576
00:43:07,184 --> 00:43:08,549
Ever.
577
00:43:08,652 --> 00:43:09,778
Okay.
578
00:43:11,989 --> 00:43:13,388
Hey, Geneva.
579
00:43:13,791 --> 00:43:15,315
Hey, baby.
580
00:43:16,927 --> 00:43:20,328
You must be hungry.
Let me make you something to eat.
581
00:43:25,903 --> 00:43:27,165
Yeah.
582
00:43:53,097 --> 00:43:55,065
What, you ain't hungry?
583
00:44:01,238 --> 00:44:02,865
He ain't hungry.
584
00:44:03,374 --> 00:44:05,035
You ain't hungry?
585
00:44:08,012 --> 00:44:10,981
You ain't eat nothing.
What, you ain't hungry?
586
00:44:13,617 --> 00:44:15,448
- Son?
- Muddy.
587
00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:21,583
You ain't hungry? Son?
588
00:44:22,493 --> 00:44:25,519
- Muddy, he's just a kid!
- You better know I know it.
589
00:44:25,996 --> 00:44:28,191
I'll put a motherfucking
lacing on you, boy.
590
00:44:28,298 --> 00:44:31,893
Now, you better go on somewhere
and sleep it off. You hear me?
591
00:45:02,232 --> 00:45:05,724
Oh, smokestack lightning
592
00:45:06,937 --> 00:45:07,995
Shining...
593
00:45:08,105 --> 00:45:10,665
Cut.
594
00:45:10,774 --> 00:45:12,571
You on the guitar,
what's your name?
595
00:45:12,676 --> 00:45:13,870
Hubert, sir.
596
00:45:13,977 --> 00:45:15,308
"Hubert"?
597
00:45:16,346 --> 00:45:17,677
Walter, behave yourself.
598
00:45:17,781 --> 00:45:19,681
- Motherfucker's name is Hubert.
- Shut up.
599
00:45:19,783 --> 00:45:22,650
Who do you think you are,
playing that loud?
600
00:45:22,753 --> 00:45:25,381
Yeah, lower the amp, not the guitar.
The amp.
601
00:45:25,489 --> 00:45:27,389
Get it right, Hubert.
602
00:45:27,491 --> 00:45:29,618
Don't talk to him no more.
603
00:45:31,895 --> 00:45:33,692
I'm the band leader.
604
00:45:34,598 --> 00:45:37,658
Reckon you ain't never
worked with one before.
605
00:45:38,836 --> 00:45:43,432
You want something done, you ask me.
I'm gonna tell him what he has to be doing.
606
00:45:44,608 --> 00:45:46,269
Is that right?
607
00:45:47,778 --> 00:45:48,938
That's right.
608
00:45:49,046 --> 00:45:53,278
Only thing you can do. That's a
mean motherfucker right there. Shit.
609
00:45:54,218 --> 00:45:55,776
Get it right.
610
00:45:56,687 --> 00:45:58,882
- All right, big man.
- Go and get your coat.
611
00:45:58,989 --> 00:46:00,183
Okay, then.
612
00:46:00,290 --> 00:46:01,655
Take two.
613
00:46:03,127 --> 00:46:04,617
Hey, baby.
614
00:46:05,629 --> 00:46:07,426
Why don't you stay for a while?
615
00:46:07,531 --> 00:46:10,159
Better get your girl out of the ring.
616
00:46:20,310 --> 00:46:24,303
Oh, smokestack lightning
617
00:46:24,414 --> 00:46:27,611
No, that's all right.
You can have her, baby.
618
00:46:28,352 --> 00:46:30,115
But she come with this.
619
00:46:30,220 --> 00:46:34,156
- He can't hear you, Mud.
- I guarantee you he hear me.
620
00:46:47,971 --> 00:46:49,734
Hey, Jimmy, come here.
621
00:46:51,175 --> 00:46:54,838
I want you to tell Hubert we'll pay
him twice what Wolf's paying him.
622
00:46:54,945 --> 00:46:56,640
If he's such a band leader,
623
00:46:56,747 --> 00:47:00,410
we'll see if he's band leader enough
to hold onto his boy.
624
00:47:02,319 --> 00:47:05,652
He was the big, bad wolf.
625
00:47:05,756 --> 00:47:09,248
Now, the story is he got his name
from a dead man
626
00:47:09,359 --> 00:47:12,522
who came out the cemetery
and tuned his guitar.
627
00:47:12,629 --> 00:47:15,826
And he been howling
at the moon ever since.
628
00:47:15,933 --> 00:47:19,300
Oh, stop your train
629
00:47:20,771 --> 00:47:24,207
Let a poor boy ride
630
00:47:24,308 --> 00:47:27,243
Whoa, don't you hear me crying?
631
00:47:34,785 --> 00:47:36,946
- You all right?
- Couldn't you get a smaller set?
632
00:47:39,890 --> 00:47:40,914
- You all right?
- Hurry up, man.
633
00:47:41,024 --> 00:47:43,720
- I don't want to miss this game, now.
- Oh, baby!
634
00:47:44,228 --> 00:47:46,025
I love this house.
635
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:48,721
- You got it.
- Sorry, Jimmy.
636
00:47:50,300 --> 00:47:52,291
Y'all can't come in here.
637
00:47:52,769 --> 00:47:53,861
I'm Chuck Berry.
638
00:47:53,971 --> 00:47:56,735
Chuck Berry's a
country-and-western singer.
639
00:47:59,176 --> 00:48:00,473
Is he?
640
00:48:01,778 --> 00:48:04,269
You know who else he is? He's me.
641
00:48:14,958 --> 00:48:17,188
Says he's Chuck Berry.
642
00:48:19,796 --> 00:48:21,821
Let me see some ID.
643
00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:24,898
All right, then.
644
00:48:25,969 --> 00:48:27,095
ID.
645
00:48:30,007 --> 00:48:34,706
This license says you're Indian.
That pinup make you look like a white man.
646
00:48:34,811 --> 00:48:36,972
- What the hell are you?
- I'm a musician.
647
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:38,809
And my name is Chuck Berry.
648
00:48:38,916 --> 00:48:41,885
And I can be whatever you need me to be
649
00:48:41,985 --> 00:48:45,421
to play in your fine establishment
this evening.
650
00:48:45,522 --> 00:48:47,490
You part con man, too?
651
00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:49,285
No.
652
00:48:49,693 --> 00:48:51,490
You may sing country.
653
00:48:52,162 --> 00:48:54,255
You ain't doing it here.
654
00:48:57,668 --> 00:49:00,865
- Get on, now.
- You gentlemen have a fine evening.
655
00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:08,202
ID.
656
00:49:18,555 --> 00:49:20,352
What happened to your doors?
657
00:49:21,058 --> 00:49:23,424
It was hot, so I took them off.
658
00:49:23,527 --> 00:49:25,825
It's all right. Come on, baby.
659
00:49:27,464 --> 00:49:29,591
- Come on, girl.
- Thank you.
660
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,059
Let me see your license.
661
00:49:34,137 --> 00:49:37,038
Okay. Okay.
Here, you take a look at this here.
662
00:49:37,140 --> 00:49:38,937
I'm about to go wax this record, okay?
663
00:49:39,042 --> 00:49:41,738
Get your ass back over here, nigger.
664
00:49:48,518 --> 00:49:51,112
Now, you looking at my license, huh?
665
00:49:51,221 --> 00:49:55,021
You guys know that "nigger" ain't
the name my mama gave me, now.
666
00:49:56,059 --> 00:49:58,425
Oh, pardon. I'm sorry.
667
00:49:59,863 --> 00:50:02,423
These motherfuckers can't read.
668
00:50:02,532 --> 00:50:05,092
Okay. Let me help you out.
You got to sound that shit out.
669
00:50:07,671 --> 00:50:08,968
Come on.
670
00:50:09,306 --> 00:50:10,500
"Walter. "
671
00:50:10,607 --> 00:50:12,632
Mud! The cops got Walter!
672
00:50:13,443 --> 00:50:16,003
- Hey, take it easy!
- Nigger.
673
00:50:16,113 --> 00:50:17,273
Come on. He works here.
674
00:50:17,381 --> 00:50:19,281
- He works here. Take it easy.
- This here nigger?
675
00:50:19,383 --> 00:50:22,284
- You feel like a nigger yet?
- Hey! Look.
676
00:50:22,652 --> 00:50:24,916
- Look. Please.
- You see that?
677
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:28,014
Do you see that?
I belong to the Chess family.
678
00:50:29,059 --> 00:50:32,028
- Motherfucker!
- Hey!
679
00:50:32,729 --> 00:50:35,391
You're gonna need a new car, nigger.
680
00:50:36,666 --> 00:50:38,566
That's what I've been
telling this motherfucker.
681
00:50:38,668 --> 00:50:41,694
Shut up, shut up. Would you stop?
Are you fucking with cops now?
682
00:50:41,805 --> 00:50:43,033
God damn it.
683
00:50:43,673 --> 00:50:45,971
What's the matter with you?
684
00:50:47,778 --> 00:50:50,076
- Are you all right, man?
- Damn it.
685
00:50:50,180 --> 00:50:53,081
I had no business being
that pretty anyway.
686
00:50:58,088 --> 00:50:59,521
It looks like I need a new car, Len.
687
00:50:59,623 --> 00:51:02,956
I gave you a new car.
You rip the fucking doors off it?
688
00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:04,357
It's not my problem!
689
00:51:04,461 --> 00:51:06,486
I gave you a number-one record, Len.
690
00:51:06,596 --> 00:51:09,064
I gave you a chance to make
a number-one fucking record.
691
00:51:09,166 --> 00:51:11,327
Oh, you gave the little nigger
a chance, huh?
692
00:51:11,435 --> 00:51:13,926
Little nigger don't need no chance!
693
00:51:14,671 --> 00:51:16,969
I can play, motherfucker!
694
00:51:17,074 --> 00:51:19,099
I'm fucking king on this shit!
695
00:51:19,209 --> 00:51:21,109
You think I'm gonna shoot you?
696
00:51:21,211 --> 00:51:24,112
- Get some rest.
- No, I need a new car.
697
00:51:24,748 --> 00:51:28,582
Enough! What you need to do
is get back to the Pepsi-Cola, boy.
698
00:51:28,685 --> 00:51:31,677
Let me tell you,
that liquor ain't for you.
699
00:51:31,788 --> 00:51:34,552
What you gonna do, Mud?
You gonna hit me, Mud?
700
00:51:34,658 --> 00:51:37,388
You gonna choke me now? On the street?
701
00:51:38,628 --> 00:51:40,186
Get off me.
702
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:44,867
You know,
703
00:51:45,702 --> 00:51:47,169
that Wolf,
704
00:51:49,039 --> 00:51:51,735
the way he stood up for his sideman,
705
00:51:53,743 --> 00:51:56,371
maybe he could teach you something, Mud.
706
00:52:00,784 --> 00:52:02,479
Esther, come on!
707
00:52:06,256 --> 00:52:08,918
Find yourself another harp player.
708
00:52:17,567 --> 00:52:20,035
Well, baby, you know
I can never be satisfied
709
00:52:20,303 --> 00:52:23,739
And I just can't keep from crying
710
00:52:25,742 --> 00:52:27,300
Lay it on, man.
711
00:52:35,919 --> 00:52:38,410
Hubert Sumlin,
ladies and gentlemen.
712
00:53:04,447 --> 00:53:07,109
- What you want, miss?
- Tell Pot that I ain't leaving.
713
00:53:07,217 --> 00:53:09,549
Pot! Your girl said she ain't leaving.
714
00:53:09,653 --> 00:53:13,316
I want your things out of my room
when I get home. I told you.
715
00:53:18,061 --> 00:53:21,155
You can't hide from the eye of God.
716
00:53:21,998 --> 00:53:23,966
He hunting heads tonight.
717
00:53:38,448 --> 00:53:41,906
Muddy, I don't think
I want to be in your band no more.
718
00:53:43,220 --> 00:53:45,347
You steal him from me again,
719
00:53:46,690 --> 00:53:48,180
I'll kill you.
720
00:53:54,197 --> 00:53:55,357
He tell you I quit?
721
00:53:55,465 --> 00:53:58,730
He said he felt like
somebody took away his oxygen.
722
00:54:01,004 --> 00:54:02,198
Walter.
723
00:54:03,940 --> 00:54:05,430
You're family.
724
00:54:06,643 --> 00:54:08,634
You don't have to do this.
725
00:54:12,616 --> 00:54:14,311
I'm gonna miss you.
726
00:54:33,403 --> 00:54:38,534
When you lose that cat that gave you
that sound that nobody else could,
727
00:54:40,043 --> 00:54:41,271
it hurts.
728
00:54:41,378 --> 00:54:43,778
Hurts more than losing your woman.
729
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,728
It's good you brought him in.
730
00:54:58,828 --> 00:55:00,921
See what I was telling you, baby?
731
00:55:01,031 --> 00:55:02,658
He's different.
732
00:55:02,766 --> 00:55:05,530
I don't know, Len.
He sound a little country to me.
733
00:55:05,635 --> 00:55:07,535
Maybe we blues him up just a little bit.
734
00:55:07,637 --> 00:55:08,797
Willie.
735
00:55:09,506 --> 00:55:12,805
I don't want you to blues this up.
This ain't the blues.
736
00:55:12,909 --> 00:55:16,367
I don't know what the fuck it is,
but we're gonna record it.
737
00:55:16,479 --> 00:55:18,106
- There you go, baby.
- Yeah.
738
00:55:35,832 --> 00:55:38,596
Hey. Hey there, girl.
739
00:55:40,370 --> 00:55:41,667
Tell Chess
740
00:55:44,107 --> 00:55:45,734
I need a new car.
741
00:55:46,976 --> 00:55:48,807
This ain't the right color.
742
00:55:54,250 --> 00:55:55,911
You got something real special.
743
00:55:56,019 --> 00:55:59,352
Thank you, Mr. Freed. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
744
00:56:01,891 --> 00:56:03,324
Do you think you'll be able to play it?
745
00:56:03,426 --> 00:56:07,556
If I play it, I make
you famous and him rich.
746
00:56:07,664 --> 00:56:10,792
The question is, how bad do you want it?
747
00:56:10,900 --> 00:56:14,927
I'm sorry.
You said, me famous and him rich? Yeah?
748
00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:18,967
Well, hold on. One second. One second.
749
00:56:19,075 --> 00:56:21,475
Let me switch sides
with you for a moment.
750
00:56:21,578 --> 00:56:23,239
Chuck's a bit of a comedian.
751
00:56:24,514 --> 00:56:26,106
- Well, this is nice.
- Yeah.
752
00:56:26,216 --> 00:56:28,810
- This is very nice.
- I'm sure we can work something out.
753
00:56:28,918 --> 00:56:32,183
Now, some of you people
might call this race music.
754
00:56:32,288 --> 00:56:36,122
I call it rock and roll, and it's
too fun for anybody to sit out on,
755
00:56:36,226 --> 00:56:37,887
white or colored.
756
00:56:39,262 --> 00:56:41,560
- Did he just say what I think he said?
- Yeah.
757
00:56:41,664 --> 00:56:44,258
He just integrated the airwaves.
758
00:56:44,367 --> 00:56:48,303
- Here we are.
- Here we are, motherfucker. Here we are.
759
00:56:48,405 --> 00:56:51,306
- Oh, God.
- Mr. Waters, I am deeply grateful to you.
760
00:56:51,408 --> 00:56:52,705
You got it, baby.
761
00:57:09,192 --> 00:57:11,717
Riding along in my automobile
762
00:57:12,962 --> 00:57:15,487
I was anxious to tell
her the way I feel
763
00:57:16,433 --> 00:57:19,027
So I told her softly and sincere
764
00:57:19,135 --> 00:57:21,763
Chuck was playing in
segregated cities.
765
00:57:24,340 --> 00:57:29,039
But there was just a thin rope
to separate coloreds from whites.
766
00:57:29,779 --> 00:57:31,838
And a whole lot of history.
767
00:57:42,058 --> 00:57:45,186
And that's all it took
to bring us all together,
768
00:57:45,295 --> 00:57:48,287
one man duck-walking across stage.
769
00:57:48,398 --> 00:57:49,490
Shit.
770
00:57:51,234 --> 00:57:53,429
Please keep the aisles clear.
771
00:57:54,838 --> 00:57:56,135
Get back over here.
772
00:57:56,239 --> 00:57:58,036
Keep the aisles clear.
773
00:58:16,125 --> 00:58:17,683
Why don't you play like that, Daddy?
774
00:58:17,794 --> 00:58:21,355
- Ain't nothing but the blues sped up.
- It's rock and roll.
775
00:58:23,132 --> 00:58:24,759
Look at that car!
776
00:58:27,804 --> 00:58:29,829
Len Chess got two hot cars.
777
00:58:31,074 --> 00:58:33,099
Hey, Muddy. Hey, Charles.
778
00:58:33,209 --> 00:58:35,734
We're on American Bandstand.
You believe this?
779
00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:39,281
- There's the man. Been a long time.
- Chuck Berry!
780
00:58:39,382 --> 00:58:41,907
- Hey, is this the boy?
- Yeah, that's Charles.
781
00:58:42,018 --> 00:58:43,315
That's your car outside?
782
00:58:43,419 --> 00:58:44,886
The cherry-red one out there?
783
00:58:44,988 --> 00:58:46,956
It's the most beautiful
thing I've ever seen.
784
00:58:47,056 --> 00:58:49,422
Ain't it? Good taste.
785
00:58:49,526 --> 00:58:52,654
- Sit down, Charles. Have a seat.
- Chuck Berry.
786
00:58:53,296 --> 00:58:55,924
Charles, Charlie, Chuck.
787
00:58:56,466 --> 00:58:59,435
Mortgage payment
and child support killing me.
788
00:59:00,203 --> 00:59:02,797
And I ain't booking the clubs enough.
789
00:59:04,874 --> 00:59:07,502
Len, I was talking to the accountant,
790
00:59:08,578 --> 00:59:10,409
and he been telling me
I'm borrowing against my royalties.
791
00:59:10,513 --> 00:59:13,004
Len, Mud, it's coming.
You're gonna miss it.
792
00:59:13,116 --> 00:59:14,242
Yeah. In a minute.
793
00:59:14,350 --> 00:59:17,615
What's going on?
I thought I was just getting paid.
794
00:59:21,858 --> 00:59:23,689
Records ain't selling.
795
00:59:24,193 --> 00:59:27,993
Is that how come you got
a brand-new Cadillac in the driveway?
796
00:59:28,731 --> 00:59:30,756
He bought me that Cadillac.
797
00:59:31,968 --> 00:59:34,960
Me, you and every other motherfucker
798
00:59:35,071 --> 00:59:38,700
cashes a Chess Records check
is riding that man's coattails.
799
00:59:38,808 --> 00:59:40,537
And that ain't good.
800
00:59:41,377 --> 00:59:42,366
Thank you.
801
00:59:42,478 --> 00:59:45,345
In my book, you're still number one.
802
00:59:46,049 --> 00:59:47,539
You, too, baby.
803
00:59:47,884 --> 00:59:50,079
Hey, Dad, you got to see this.
804
01:00:03,466 --> 01:00:07,960
They were locking up fine black
women for sitting on buses,
805
01:00:08,071 --> 01:00:12,269
stringing up our little bitty boys
for whistling at white women.
806
01:00:13,076 --> 01:00:16,443
Not paying any mind
at all to old Chuck,
807
01:00:16,546 --> 01:00:20,642
who was reaping up their firstborn
with this thing called rock and roll.
808
01:00:30,426 --> 01:00:35,489
$3,000 in his pocket
and he'd be eating like a hobo.
809
01:00:35,598 --> 01:00:39,056
But he'd do that before he'd give
them crackers one damn dollar.
810
01:00:40,136 --> 01:00:42,229
Chuck'd rather
sleep in his own car
811
01:00:42,338 --> 01:00:45,796
than to give his money
to one of them segregated hotels.
812
01:00:52,148 --> 01:00:55,845
The man saved $100,000
the first year.
813
01:00:55,952 --> 01:00:58,750
Now, he didn't drink,
and, no, he didn't gamble.
814
01:00:58,855 --> 01:01:01,847
He only had one particular vice.
815
01:01:01,958 --> 01:01:04,984
- Good evening, ladies.
- You're him, aren't you?
816
01:01:06,396 --> 01:01:08,887
Well, what "him" are you looking for?
817
01:01:08,998 --> 01:01:10,192
You know.
818
01:01:12,468 --> 01:01:14,561
How do you know I know?
819
01:01:14,671 --> 01:01:16,104
I know everything.
820
01:01:16,205 --> 01:01:19,368
Would you mind coming to teach me
what you know?
821
01:01:20,443 --> 01:01:22,468
I'll teach you everything.
822
01:01:27,650 --> 01:01:30,847
Now, Chuck wasn't the only one
looking for female talent.
823
01:01:30,953 --> 01:01:33,046
Len was on a girl-hunt, too.
824
01:01:33,990 --> 01:01:35,321
Here she is.
825
01:01:35,425 --> 01:01:37,359
Glad you could make it.
826
01:01:37,460 --> 01:01:39,360
I can get you a drink...
827
01:01:42,365 --> 01:01:45,732
What, you want me to just do it
right here? Right now?
828
01:01:45,835 --> 01:01:47,735
Well, I am leaving town tomorrow.
829
01:01:47,837 --> 01:01:49,998
Yeah, baby,
you don't have to be shy with him.
830
01:01:50,106 --> 01:01:51,698
I ain't shy, fool.
831
01:01:55,745 --> 01:01:59,442
Don't be looking at me
like I ain't wearing no drawers!
832
01:01:59,549 --> 01:02:02,484
It's just hard to do if
you ain't in the mood.
833
01:02:02,585 --> 01:02:04,519
And I ain't in the mood.
834
01:02:06,456 --> 01:02:08,321
She ain't in the mood.
835
01:02:12,361 --> 01:02:13,623
Come on.
836
01:02:14,263 --> 01:02:15,787
I thought you said this broad was good.
837
01:02:15,932 --> 01:02:19,095
I heard
838
01:02:20,436 --> 01:02:23,997
Church bells ring
839
01:02:24,907 --> 01:02:27,808
I heard
840
01:02:28,778 --> 01:02:32,714
A choir singing
841
01:02:33,516 --> 01:02:37,213
I saw my love
842
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:41,183
Walk down the aisle
843
01:02:41,524 --> 01:02:44,721
On her finger
844
01:02:44,994 --> 01:02:47,963
He placed the ring
845
01:02:48,231 --> 01:02:52,327
He was looking for a woman that could
go head-to-head with his men.
846
01:02:53,302 --> 01:02:55,167
And he found her.
847
01:02:55,271 --> 01:02:57,637
Miss Etta James.
848
01:02:57,740 --> 01:02:59,901
- Hey, Mud.
- You got it, baby.
849
01:03:00,009 --> 01:03:02,102
When do I get you back in here?
850
01:03:02,211 --> 01:03:04,475
You ain't heard?
My records ain't selling.
851
01:03:04,580 --> 01:03:05,911
You're always gonna sell, baby.
852
01:03:06,015 --> 01:03:07,243
Cut.
853
01:03:07,950 --> 01:03:10,350
What's going on with
sweet baby girl there?
854
01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:11,579
Sweet?
855
01:03:12,321 --> 01:03:15,654
Fuck you, Leonard. What the
hell you know about the blues?
856
01:03:15,758 --> 01:03:19,387
I gave you a damn good track.
You want it? You sing it.
857
01:03:19,495 --> 01:03:21,690
Now she want me to sing it.
Fine, go home.
858
01:03:21,798 --> 01:03:24,232
Forget it. Everybody go home.
That's a wrap.
859
01:03:24,333 --> 01:03:26,392
What are you smiling about?
860
01:03:27,336 --> 01:03:29,327
My mistake.
You ain't woman enough for that song.
861
01:03:29,438 --> 01:03:31,235
- I'm plenty woman.
- Oh, yeah?
862
01:03:31,340 --> 01:03:33,638
It's about being in love.
You know what that is?
863
01:03:33,743 --> 01:03:35,210
- I know about love.
- Yeah?
864
01:03:35,311 --> 01:03:37,711
Motherfucker ever walk out on you?
865
01:03:38,648 --> 01:03:42,015
Fucking not only did he walk out on you,
he's taking the other broad down the aisle.
866
01:03:42,118 --> 01:03:44,609
You know what that feels like, baby?
867
01:03:52,028 --> 01:03:53,791
Give me another one.
868
01:03:55,331 --> 01:03:57,799
You heard her. She wants another one.
869
01:03:57,900 --> 01:03:59,094
Take 15.
870
01:04:06,209 --> 01:04:09,975
I heard
871
01:04:10,079 --> 01:04:13,537
Church bells ring
872
01:04:14,217 --> 01:04:17,311
I heard
873
01:04:17,420 --> 01:04:20,480
A choir singing
874
01:04:22,592 --> 01:04:25,823
I saw my love
875
01:04:25,928 --> 01:04:29,591
Walk down the aisle
876
01:04:29,699 --> 01:04:32,293
On her finger
877
01:04:33,236 --> 01:04:35,670
He placed a ring
878
01:04:35,771 --> 01:04:39,867
Oh, I saw them
879
01:04:41,043 --> 01:04:43,876
Holding hands
880
01:04:44,914 --> 01:04:47,712
She was standing there
881
01:04:48,784 --> 01:04:51,309
With my man
882
01:04:53,589 --> 01:04:56,319
I heard them promise
883
01:04:57,126 --> 01:05:00,289
Till death do us part
884
01:05:00,897 --> 01:05:02,558
Each word
885
01:05:02,665 --> 01:05:06,362
Was a pain in my heart
886
01:05:07,136 --> 01:05:11,197
Oh, all I could do
887
01:05:11,641 --> 01:05:15,133
All I could do was cry
888
01:05:16,779 --> 01:05:19,976
All I could do
889
01:05:20,082 --> 01:05:23,245
Was cry
890
01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:28,023
I was losing
891
01:05:28,124 --> 01:05:31,719
The man that I loved
892
01:05:31,827 --> 01:05:35,490
And all I could do
893
01:05:35,598 --> 01:05:38,431
Was cry
894
01:05:38,534 --> 01:05:42,095
And now
895
01:05:42,939 --> 01:05:45,931
The wedding is over
896
01:05:47,743 --> 01:05:50,837
The rice, rice has been thrown
897
01:05:50,947 --> 01:05:54,110
Over their heads
898
01:05:55,885 --> 01:05:59,412
For them life
899
01:05:59,522 --> 01:06:03,049
Has just begun
900
01:06:03,159 --> 01:06:05,252
But mine
901
01:06:05,361 --> 01:06:08,728
Is ending
902
01:06:21,978 --> 01:06:24,173
You play a mean game of pool.
903
01:06:28,484 --> 01:06:31,817
Listen, if I brought up bad memories,
I'm sorry.
904
01:06:31,921 --> 01:06:34,219
But it was good for the song.
905
01:06:34,323 --> 01:06:36,848
This album comes out,
that old boyfriend will come running.
906
01:06:36,959 --> 01:06:39,427
I wasn't crying over no boyfriend.
907
01:06:39,528 --> 01:06:40,654
Oh, no?
908
01:06:41,764 --> 01:06:43,129
Girlfriend?
909
01:06:46,936 --> 01:06:48,927
How'd you learn to play pool so good?
910
01:06:49,038 --> 01:06:50,335
My daddy.
911
01:06:53,109 --> 01:06:55,805
- Can I get a whiskey?
- Sure thing, boss.
912
01:06:55,911 --> 01:06:57,276
That's good.
913
01:06:58,881 --> 01:07:00,849
Hard to find time to
teach your kids things.
914
01:07:00,950 --> 01:07:03,680
He ain't teach me shit. I taught myself.
915
01:07:04,353 --> 01:07:06,548
I don't want to embarrass him
when we meet.
916
01:07:06,655 --> 01:07:09,385
Tell you who's gonna be embarrassed
is your old man.
917
01:07:09,492 --> 01:07:11,824
Because he's gonna meet
a goddamn superstar.
918
01:07:11,927 --> 01:07:13,121
You know?
919
01:07:14,530 --> 01:07:15,827
And what is he?
920
01:07:15,931 --> 01:07:17,660
A nobody. Now,
921
01:07:18,300 --> 01:07:20,894
I don't want to embarrass you,
but let me show you how it's done.
922
01:07:21,003 --> 01:07:25,463
You're batting a thousand on being wrong.
You see that picture over there?
923
01:07:27,877 --> 01:07:30,345
What, Minnesota Fats is your father?
924
01:07:33,182 --> 01:07:34,774
That's the story.
925
01:07:40,656 --> 01:07:42,681
You ought to have him come by the studio.
926
01:07:42,792 --> 01:07:45,317
I ain't never even met that motherfucker.
927
01:07:45,428 --> 01:07:50,058
But when I do,
I want it to be in a fancy restaurant
928
01:07:50,166 --> 01:07:52,930
where everybody wants my picture
and asking me for my autograph.
929
01:07:53,035 --> 01:07:55,401
- That's the dream, huh?
- That's my dream.
930
01:07:55,504 --> 01:07:57,062
It's not a dream.
931
01:07:58,040 --> 01:07:59,098
You're gonna cross over.
932
01:07:59,208 --> 01:08:01,199
- You think?
- Promise.
933
01:08:02,211 --> 01:08:05,237
You gonna promise me
that fancy restaurant, too?
934
01:08:06,215 --> 01:08:07,409
Promise.
935
01:08:08,150 --> 01:08:12,143
The one that's gonna serve the white man
and his colored daughter.
936
01:08:15,291 --> 01:08:16,724
Hey, come on.
937
01:08:17,093 --> 01:08:20,153
You sing the blues.
You don't have to live them.
938
01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:24,331
What the fuck do you know, white boy?
939
01:08:29,271 --> 01:08:31,933
Yeah, you play that hard act real good.
940
01:08:34,577 --> 01:08:36,010
But I see you.
941
01:08:40,950 --> 01:08:42,281
I see you.
942
01:08:56,799 --> 01:08:59,563
Old Len thought his checkbook
can fix anything,
943
01:08:59,668 --> 01:09:02,398
so he bought out the
restaurant for Etta.
944
01:09:02,505 --> 01:09:05,303
But there's some
things money can't fix.
945
01:09:05,407 --> 01:09:07,272
I can't help you, kid.
946
01:09:08,410 --> 01:09:10,742
Gin. Can I have a bottle of gin?
947
01:09:11,647 --> 01:09:13,512
I need a bottle of gin.
948
01:09:14,116 --> 01:09:16,846
Gin, please. Can I have a bottle of gin?
949
01:09:17,753 --> 01:09:21,052
Gin! Can I get a fucking bottle of gin?
950
01:09:22,925 --> 01:09:25,325
- Come on. Bottle of gin.
- Right away, sir.
951
01:09:25,427 --> 01:09:28,089
I guess I got to be him to get some gin?
952
01:09:37,373 --> 01:09:39,933
- What'd he say to you?
- Stupid shit.
953
01:09:40,042 --> 01:09:42,442
He didn't even ask if
he could see me again.
954
01:09:42,545 --> 01:09:44,410
That's his problem.
Why you making it yours?
955
01:09:44,513 --> 01:09:46,481
Here you go, sir.
956
01:09:46,582 --> 01:09:49,676
You wouldn't even begin to know
my problems, baby.
957
01:09:51,187 --> 01:09:52,347
Let me.
958
01:09:59,395 --> 01:10:01,192
My mother was a whore.
959
01:10:04,900 --> 01:10:09,599
And that fat motherfucker just looked me
in my face, and he didn't see himself.
960
01:10:10,639 --> 01:10:13,870
He didn't see his little girl.
You know what he saw?
961
01:10:15,177 --> 01:10:19,477
He saw the cum stains
of all the other men my mother fucked.
962
01:10:20,783 --> 01:10:24,344
These chanda-fucking-liers and these
white tablecloths don't mean shit!
963
01:10:24,453 --> 01:10:26,751
I ain't gonna ever be
good enough for him.
964
01:10:26,855 --> 01:10:29,221
You know they're gonna break this
when I leave, right?
965
01:10:29,325 --> 01:10:31,293
Fuck it! I'll do it for you!
966
01:10:31,393 --> 01:10:33,520
Come on, honey. Listen to me.
967
01:10:34,930 --> 01:10:36,727
You can't let that in.
968
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:39,958
You know, Muddy,
969
01:10:40,836 --> 01:10:43,361
he sings that hurt. He don't live it.
970
01:10:44,974 --> 01:10:46,566
He don't nurse it.
971
01:10:47,209 --> 01:10:51,009
Walter, he carries it around like a baby.
972
01:10:51,113 --> 01:10:53,308
Feeds it on whiskey and smack.
973
01:10:55,150 --> 01:10:56,913
You got to let it go.
974
01:11:04,026 --> 01:11:05,254
I can't.
975
01:11:26,749 --> 01:11:27,909
Oh, no.
976
01:11:28,550 --> 01:11:30,450
No, I'm not having it.
977
01:11:35,691 --> 01:11:37,215
That's my song.
978
01:11:38,260 --> 01:11:40,922
- No, darling.
- No, no, darling.
979
01:11:42,331 --> 01:11:43,958
That's my song.
980
01:11:44,066 --> 01:11:45,829
No, darling. That's the Beach Boys.
981
01:11:48,671 --> 01:11:51,834
That is Sweet Sixteen,
note for note.
982
01:11:52,741 --> 01:11:54,606
Note for note. Not one change.
983
01:11:54,710 --> 01:11:58,578
Aside, apart from the lyrics,
about the new...
984
01:11:58,681 --> 01:12:03,618
The new craze sweeping the nation
for young white boys and girls, surfing.
985
01:12:03,719 --> 01:12:06,950
I've provided them the soundtrack,
unbeknownst to myself.
986
01:12:07,056 --> 01:12:08,819
- You ready?
- Yes, I'm ready.
987
01:12:08,924 --> 01:12:13,190
I'm very ready to make more songs
for the Beach Boys
988
01:12:13,929 --> 01:12:17,865
and all other manner of white folks
to steal. Yes, I'm quite ready.
989
01:12:17,966 --> 01:12:20,127
- You say the devil's name, he appears.
- We need to talk.
990
01:12:20,235 --> 01:12:24,194
Yeah, we do need to talk. You heard this?
You know what's going on?
991
01:12:24,306 --> 01:12:26,638
- Do you know what's going on?
- I'm not laying down for this.
992
01:12:26,742 --> 01:12:30,576
First, Alan Freed gets
a third of Maybelline. For what?
993
01:12:30,679 --> 01:12:31,703
Chuck, listen.
994
01:12:31,814 --> 01:12:35,807
No. You listen to me.
Did he write one part of the song?
995
01:12:35,918 --> 01:12:37,749
- One part?
- Alan Freed put us on the map.
996
01:12:37,853 --> 01:12:39,184
This gives him the license...
997
01:12:39,288 --> 01:12:41,119
Did you take an underage white girl
across state lines?
998
01:12:41,223 --> 01:12:44,624
I'm not talking about girls.
What's going on?
999
01:12:46,095 --> 01:12:49,394
- Don't say shit. Don't say anything.
- Hello, Officers. Is there a problem?
1000
01:12:49,498 --> 01:12:52,365
Mr. Berry, you are under arrest
for transporting a minor
1001
01:12:52,468 --> 01:12:55,960
across state lines
for the purpose of prostitution.
1002
01:12:56,071 --> 01:13:01,008
First of all, I didn't transport anyone
anywhere. I didn't solicit anything.
1003
01:13:01,110 --> 01:13:05,206
Gentlemen, I'll have you know that
my very dear friend Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis
1004
01:13:05,314 --> 01:13:06,838
- has a 13-year-old wife.
- Keep your mouth shut.
1005
01:13:06,949 --> 01:13:09,975
Are we stopping by his home on the way?
Emmett Till gets murdered
1006
01:13:10,085 --> 01:13:12,986
for whistling at a white woman.
I know you're pleased to get Chuck Berry.
1007
01:13:13,088 --> 01:13:14,715
Fix this, Leonard.
1008
01:13:22,731 --> 01:13:26,599
You guys got to be kidding me, man.
Where are you from?
1009
01:13:26,702 --> 01:13:28,727
You set that hair in the morning?
1010
01:13:28,837 --> 01:13:32,136
You ladies shouldn't be out here
without an escort.
1011
01:13:32,241 --> 01:13:35,836
A bunch of English boys started
playing our music.
1012
01:13:35,944 --> 01:13:38,071
Now, it was made in America,
1013
01:13:38,180 --> 01:13:41,274
but I guess nobody thought
we were Americans.
1014
01:13:41,383 --> 01:13:43,977
Hey, let me help you with that, fellow.
1015
01:13:44,086 --> 01:13:47,647
Fucking hell. It's him!
1016
01:13:47,756 --> 01:13:50,554
Mr. Waters.
1017
01:13:50,659 --> 01:13:52,286
We're big fans.
1018
01:13:52,394 --> 01:13:54,157
You're the reason we got together.
1019
01:13:54,263 --> 01:13:56,629
We named our band
after one of your songs.
1020
01:13:56,732 --> 01:13:58,859
- Yeah?
- Rolling Stone.
1021
01:14:01,103 --> 01:14:02,570
All right.
1022
01:14:02,671 --> 01:14:05,333
Go on in there. Fuck them police.
1023
01:14:05,441 --> 01:14:09,138
Everybody knows the Rolling Stones,
the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac,
1024
01:14:09,244 --> 01:14:13,146
Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton.
Everybody know them names, right?
1025
01:14:16,418 --> 01:14:18,147
Skinny motherfuckers.
1026
01:14:19,121 --> 01:14:21,521
The Rolling Stones
are burning up the charts
1027
01:14:21,623 --> 01:14:23,853
with an old Muddy Waters standard.
1028
01:14:27,729 --> 01:14:31,961
Take 10% of Chuck's royalties
and move them to Muddy. Go on and do it.
1029
01:14:32,901 --> 01:14:34,892
Chuck ain't gonna miss it.
1030
01:14:38,574 --> 01:14:41,407
The goose that laid the golden egg
was locked up.
1031
01:14:44,146 --> 01:14:48,173
So Len brought in the old standbys,
including Little Walter.
1032
01:14:48,283 --> 01:14:50,513
Chess was desperate for a hit.
1033
01:14:50,619 --> 01:14:53,986
Oh, hey, little girl, now.
Who you belong to, huh?
1034
01:14:55,123 --> 01:14:57,353
- You mind if I watch?
- Go ahead, baby girl.
1035
01:14:57,459 --> 01:14:59,984
- I grew up on y'all's music.
- Watch?
1036
01:15:00,095 --> 01:15:01,585
Come over here.
1037
01:15:02,297 --> 01:15:04,390
I'll teach you to blow, baby.
1038
01:15:04,500 --> 01:15:08,197
Better watch it, baby girl.
He ain't talking about that harp.
1039
01:15:08,303 --> 01:15:10,100
Muddy, you're a fool.
1040
01:15:10,906 --> 01:15:14,171
I wouldn't mind a little bit of
what you flying on.
1041
01:15:15,477 --> 01:15:18,207
You too pretty to be flying my way, now.
1042
01:15:19,214 --> 01:15:21,182
You don't need that amp.
1043
01:15:22,184 --> 01:15:25,745
- How they gonna hear me?
- Everybody's records are getting sent back.
1044
01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:28,721
You want to survive, do
something different. Play along.
1045
01:15:28,824 --> 01:15:31,019
Something different? What the fuck?
1046
01:15:31,126 --> 01:15:32,184
What?
1047
01:15:33,762 --> 01:15:35,992
Mud, what you think about this?
1048
01:15:37,165 --> 01:15:39,429
What you think about this, Mud?
1049
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:42,970
I think we need to lay this record.
1050
01:15:50,279 --> 01:15:52,440
What, I'm just a sideman now?
1051
01:15:57,386 --> 01:15:59,980
Okay, I'll do it, Len. I'll do it.
1052
01:16:00,088 --> 01:16:04,047
I'm broke as the rest of you
motherfuckers in here, so, you know?
1053
01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:08,022
I'm gonna need a bottle of gin, though.
1054
01:16:08,130 --> 01:16:10,223
I'm gonna need a bottle of gin, baby.
1055
01:16:10,332 --> 01:16:13,495
Because I like a taste
before getting fucked.
1056
01:16:13,602 --> 01:16:15,900
Somebody taking care of Walter?
1057
01:16:16,939 --> 01:16:19,430
That's right. Take care of me, baby.
1058
01:16:46,735 --> 01:16:51,172
At last
1059
01:16:53,742 --> 01:16:59,146
My love has come along
1060
01:17:02,050 --> 01:17:07,215
My lonely days are over
1061
01:17:10,459 --> 01:17:15,021
And life is like a song
1062
01:17:17,399 --> 01:17:20,095
Oh, yeah
1063
01:17:20,936 --> 01:17:23,461
At last
1064
01:17:26,475 --> 01:17:31,606
The skies above are blue
1065
01:17:35,150 --> 01:17:40,349
My heart was wrapped up in clover
1066
01:17:43,225 --> 01:17:48,162
The night I looked at you
1067
01:17:53,468 --> 01:17:57,302
I found a dream
1068
01:17:57,706 --> 01:18:01,073
That I could speak to
1069
01:18:01,877 --> 01:18:05,779
A dream that I
1070
01:18:05,881 --> 01:18:09,112
Can call my own
1071
01:18:10,218 --> 01:18:13,984
I found a thrill
1072
01:18:14,089 --> 01:18:17,547
To press my cheek to
1073
01:18:18,527 --> 01:18:22,395
A thrill that I
1074
01:18:22,497 --> 01:18:25,057
Have never known
1075
01:18:25,167 --> 01:18:27,260
Oh, yeah
1076
01:18:27,369 --> 01:18:30,031
When you smiled
1077
01:18:30,138 --> 01:18:32,732
You smiled
1078
01:18:32,841 --> 01:18:38,711
Oh, and then the spell was cast
1079
01:18:41,917 --> 01:18:47,355
And here we are in heaven
1080
01:18:49,658 --> 01:18:55,460
For you are mine
1081
01:18:55,564 --> 01:18:58,499
At last
1082
01:19:00,702 --> 01:19:02,693
- Thanks, baby.
- You got it.
1083
01:19:04,072 --> 01:19:06,700
- Happy anniversary, Revetta.
- Thank you.
1084
01:19:06,808 --> 01:19:09,504
- Where you taking her, Peppers?
- Get out of here.
1085
01:19:09,611 --> 01:19:14,674
WVJN just called.
Etta missed her airtime again.
1086
01:19:14,783 --> 01:19:18,719
God damn, it's the third time this week.
This broad, I'm gonna...
1087
01:19:23,658 --> 01:19:26,491
I'm sorry, babe. I got to go
figure out what's going on here.
1088
01:19:26,595 --> 01:19:28,187
Don't worry about it.
I'll go look in on her.
1089
01:19:28,296 --> 01:19:29,661
That ain't your job, Mud.
1090
01:19:29,765 --> 01:19:30,891
Chess.
1091
01:19:36,438 --> 01:19:38,030
Go on and enjoy yourself.
1092
01:20:28,256 --> 01:20:31,123
Now, wake up, girl. Wake up.
Look here, wake up!
1093
01:20:31,226 --> 01:20:33,251
What the... What... What you...
1094
01:20:33,361 --> 01:20:35,295
Come here. Stand up.
1095
01:20:35,397 --> 01:20:36,887
Get up, God damn it, come on.
1096
01:20:36,998 --> 01:20:39,899
- Stand up. Get up.
- Hey, baby.
1097
01:20:40,001 --> 01:20:42,697
- Come on, now.
- You came to see me?
1098
01:20:42,804 --> 01:20:44,431
- He fucked up my hair.
- I'm going to get a doctor.
1099
01:20:44,539 --> 01:20:46,666
No doctors.
1100
01:20:46,775 --> 01:20:49,539
Let me get Geneva then.
She knows what to do with this.
1101
01:20:49,644 --> 01:20:51,509
All right, that's good.
1102
01:20:52,147 --> 01:20:54,980
Wake up. Baby, come on, wake up.
1103
01:20:55,083 --> 01:20:57,278
Wake up, come on.
It's not funny. Come on.
1104
01:20:59,788 --> 01:21:02,882
This the first time I
ever used this fireplace.
1105
01:21:04,259 --> 01:21:07,353
Feel like I should be having
marshmallows or something.
1106
01:21:07,462 --> 01:21:11,125
Yeah, I'm sure marshmallows
and smack go real well together.
1107
01:21:13,602 --> 01:21:15,866
What happened to the furniture?
1108
01:21:16,972 --> 01:21:18,496
Where's the car?
1109
01:21:20,475 --> 01:21:23,273
My mama sold what didn't get repossessed.
1110
01:21:25,247 --> 01:21:26,805
They gonna take my house.
1111
01:21:26,915 --> 01:21:28,439
Oh, that's good.
1112
01:21:34,155 --> 01:21:35,349
Come on.
1113
01:21:37,726 --> 01:21:39,956
You got to put it in my name.
1114
01:21:41,930 --> 01:21:45,559
You hear me? You gonna trust me?
Put the house in my name.
1115
01:21:46,668 --> 01:21:48,761
What? What?
1116
01:21:51,907 --> 01:21:53,135
Trust me.
1117
01:21:53,875 --> 01:21:55,604
Trust in me
1118
01:21:57,812 --> 01:22:01,179
In all you do
1119
01:22:01,283 --> 01:22:02,443
Listen.
1120
01:22:03,485 --> 01:22:07,319
Listen to me. I'm gonna get you
in a clinic and get some help.
1121
01:22:09,791 --> 01:22:11,588
I'm gonna pay for it.
1122
01:22:12,928 --> 01:22:14,589
It's not a loan. It's a gift.
1123
01:22:14,696 --> 01:22:16,425
So, now you buying me gifts?
1124
01:22:16,531 --> 01:22:18,431
Yeah, that's right.
1125
01:22:18,533 --> 01:22:20,797
I must be real special.
1126
01:22:24,306 --> 01:22:26,536
I must make you a lot of money.
1127
01:22:27,742 --> 01:22:29,266
Yeah, that must be it.
1128
01:22:29,377 --> 01:22:30,867
I ain't stupid.
1129
01:22:32,447 --> 01:22:36,076
I'm your number-one bitch
since Chuck got busted.
1130
01:22:36,184 --> 01:22:39,620
- I'm trying to take care of you.
- You gonna take care of me?
1131
01:22:39,721 --> 01:22:44,090
Who the fuck you think you talking to,
your tight-ass wife?
1132
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:46,959
That's off-limits.
1133
01:22:47,062 --> 01:22:49,724
I don't need no man to take care of me.
1134
01:22:49,831 --> 01:22:53,767
So tough. You look so fucking good.
With these track marks in your arm?
1135
01:22:53,868 --> 01:22:57,395
That's real good. Well, that's good.
Yeah, that'll fix your problems, huh?
1136
01:22:57,505 --> 01:22:59,632
Baby, don't worry.
1137
01:23:01,009 --> 01:23:03,000
Etta ain't gonna hurt you.
1138
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:09,781
That feels nice. It feel real good.
Who bought you that?
1139
01:23:09,884 --> 01:23:14,685
Did Etta buy you that? I think she did.
Who bought you that car?
1140
01:23:15,523 --> 01:23:18,390
I think I got that
nice car out there, too.
1141
01:23:20,495 --> 01:23:21,860
Don't worry.
1142
01:23:22,397 --> 01:23:25,855
- I'll do it for you, baby.
- Come on. Stop that.
1143
01:23:25,967 --> 01:23:30,028
Just say, "Trust in me,"
like all them other motherfuckers...
1144
01:23:30,138 --> 01:23:33,198
Come on, I ain't taking from you!
I'm offering.
1145
01:23:33,808 --> 01:23:38,245
God damn it, I don't know what the fuck
to say to you. I'm not your fucking pimp.
1146
01:23:38,346 --> 01:23:40,314
- That's not us.
- "Us"?
1147
01:23:41,683 --> 01:23:43,548
What the fuck is "us"?
1148
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,252
A white man and a black girl?
1149
01:23:50,992 --> 01:23:52,391
I been there.
1150
01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:55,556
Yeah, but you ain't been here.
1151
01:24:00,101 --> 01:24:01,830
I'm not your father.
1152
01:24:05,974 --> 01:24:07,965
And you ain't your mother.
1153
01:24:11,446 --> 01:24:13,471
And I ain't gonna hurt you.
1154
01:24:15,483 --> 01:24:17,542
I got no reason to hurt you.
1155
01:24:21,389 --> 01:24:23,755
You don't even know what you have.
1156
01:24:24,893 --> 01:24:26,360
What do I have?
1157
01:24:31,499 --> 01:24:33,228
You got a hit record.
1158
01:24:34,035 --> 01:24:35,559
What?
1159
01:24:35,670 --> 01:24:38,104
You're on top of the charts, baby.
1160
01:24:39,307 --> 01:24:40,899
You crossed over.
1161
01:24:41,342 --> 01:24:43,071
Len, I crossed over?
1162
01:24:43,445 --> 01:24:44,810
I told you.
1163
01:25:03,932 --> 01:25:05,422
Geneva a nurse.
1164
01:25:07,869 --> 01:25:09,234
Hello, Etta.
1165
01:25:09,604 --> 01:25:10,571
Hi.
1166
01:25:17,212 --> 01:25:21,615
Are you sure you want Geneva to stay here
or you want her to come home with me?
1167
01:25:24,219 --> 01:25:26,084
It's not what you think.
1168
01:25:27,489 --> 01:25:29,480
Oh, this is just business?
1169
01:25:30,191 --> 01:25:33,285
- That's right.
- You never hold me like that.
1170
01:25:33,394 --> 01:25:35,794
Cross over and I'll
jump into bed with you.
1171
01:25:35,897 --> 01:25:39,060
I bet you'd jump out
that motherfucker quick, too.
1172
01:25:47,375 --> 01:25:48,535
What?
1173
01:25:52,147 --> 01:25:53,205
What?
1174
01:25:54,048 --> 01:25:55,572
You know how Walter call you
his white daddy,
1175
01:25:55,683 --> 01:26:00,052
because every time he step in shit,
you there to get him out of trouble?
1176
01:26:00,688 --> 01:26:04,317
And then you bring him in the studio
and you take away his amp,
1177
01:26:04,425 --> 01:26:06,859
the sound that took him
his whole life to make up.
1178
01:26:06,961 --> 01:26:11,421
Any other motherfucker he'd have shot
for that, but he give it up for you.
1179
01:26:13,835 --> 01:26:16,395
What you telling that little girl
ain't got nobody in the world?
1180
01:26:16,504 --> 01:26:18,870
That you're gonna take care of her?
1181
01:26:18,973 --> 01:26:20,565
How many strung-out
girls you told that to?
1182
01:26:20,675 --> 01:26:24,668
I ain't talking about me. I'm talking
about you and the baby girl in there.
1183
01:26:24,779 --> 01:26:28,215
- What if I told you I had feelings for her?
- Bullshit.
1184
01:26:31,986 --> 01:26:33,351
Fine.
1185
01:26:33,454 --> 01:26:37,288
I'm fucking her, I'm fucking Chuck,
and I'm fucking you. Huh?
1186
01:26:38,059 --> 01:26:40,118
That's what you think, huh?
1187
01:26:40,628 --> 01:26:42,926
Ain't that what you think, Mud?
1188
01:26:45,266 --> 01:26:49,202
Well, that's what the blues is, ain't it?
A whole lot of fucking.
1189
01:26:50,838 --> 01:26:52,897
Tell Geneva I'm gone.
1190
01:26:58,846 --> 01:27:02,748
They locked Chuck up
at the peak of his career.
1191
01:27:02,850 --> 01:27:05,148
He couldn't record a damn thing.
1192
01:27:05,253 --> 01:27:07,483
- Goodbye.
- Mr. Berry! Mr. Berry!
1193
01:27:17,298 --> 01:27:20,631
- Yeah?
- Somebody busted up your store.
1194
01:27:21,603 --> 01:27:23,127
What? Somebody broke in?
1195
01:27:23,238 --> 01:27:25,763
You better come and see about it.
1196
01:27:25,873 --> 01:27:27,864
Yeah, I'll be right down.
1197
01:27:28,810 --> 01:27:30,141
Who is this?
1198
01:27:32,013 --> 01:27:34,140
Len's world was changing.
1199
01:27:34,249 --> 01:27:39,186
Not only was Muddy questioning him,
but so were the folks in the neighborhood.
1200
01:27:39,287 --> 01:27:43,417
Colored folks who were told
they weren't colored no more, but black,
1201
01:27:44,125 --> 01:27:46,593
who was told they had a power.
1202
01:27:46,694 --> 01:27:50,027
They had the right to own
their own businesses.
1203
01:27:50,131 --> 01:27:52,725
And who was this white man
getting rich off of them?
1204
01:27:52,834 --> 01:27:54,461
You want to fuck around back here?
1205
01:27:54,569 --> 01:27:57,197
The south side of
Chicago was getting mad.
1206
01:27:57,305 --> 01:27:59,239
Everybody could feel
the change coming.
1207
01:27:59,340 --> 01:28:01,604
Get on out of our neighborhood!
1208
01:28:03,311 --> 01:28:07,907
Screaming fans went nuts again
for rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
1209
01:28:09,484 --> 01:28:13,113
Presley, handsome as ever,
tipped his hat for the cameras.
1210
01:28:13,221 --> 01:28:16,190
Well, there you have it,
ladies and gentlemen,
1211
01:28:16,891 --> 01:28:18,017
your new king.
1212
01:28:18,126 --> 01:28:20,560
I'm about to win this money, baby.
1213
01:28:22,363 --> 01:28:23,421
Tough luck, boy.
1214
01:28:23,531 --> 01:28:25,260
- Tough luck?
- You lose.
1215
01:28:25,366 --> 01:28:27,266
Back up, motherfucker.
1216
01:28:27,902 --> 01:28:30,462
No tough luck got this, motherfucker.
1217
01:28:31,005 --> 01:28:34,702
Because this shit here
says my luck is just fine.
1218
01:28:34,809 --> 01:28:36,606
What you gonna do, blow me to death?
1219
01:28:36,711 --> 01:28:37,803
Shit.
1220
01:28:42,350 --> 01:28:43,317
Walter.
1221
01:28:43,418 --> 01:28:45,477
Okay. Oh, Jesus. Walter!
1222
01:28:47,655 --> 01:28:48,849
Oh, God.
1223
01:28:49,590 --> 01:28:53,287
You ain't come and get me, Mama.
You didn't come and get me.
1224
01:28:55,530 --> 01:28:58,363
I've been waiting for
you for a long time.
1225
01:28:59,367 --> 01:29:00,664
I'm here.
1226
01:29:01,302 --> 01:29:02,667
I found you.
1227
01:29:03,504 --> 01:29:06,132
Mama loves you. Come on, stay with me.
1228
01:29:06,641 --> 01:29:09,439
- I just got to rest my eyes.
- Stay with me.
1229
01:29:10,178 --> 01:29:12,305
I just got to rest my eyes.
1230
01:29:12,413 --> 01:29:14,210
No. No, stay with me.
1231
01:29:28,930 --> 01:29:30,454
Wait a minute.
1232
01:29:33,201 --> 01:29:34,634
Wait a minute.
1233
01:29:42,176 --> 01:29:43,803
Last night
1234
01:29:45,313 --> 01:29:48,544
I lost the best friend I ever had
1235
01:29:54,021 --> 01:29:57,115
Now you've gone and left me
1236
01:29:58,292 --> 01:30:01,750
That make me feel so bad
1237
01:30:01,863 --> 01:30:03,660
All right. All right.
1238
01:30:05,032 --> 01:30:06,329
All right.
1239
01:30:08,636 --> 01:30:09,603
All right.
1240
01:30:11,906 --> 01:30:15,842
Thank you. Thank you.
1241
01:30:26,454 --> 01:30:27,785
All right.
1242
01:30:29,223 --> 01:30:31,748
Well, we'll have to see if we can...
1243
01:30:33,694 --> 01:30:36,424
If we can't get him a new suit.
1244
01:30:41,269 --> 01:30:45,501
Get him one of them boxes
with the blue satin lining inside.
1245
01:30:47,308 --> 01:30:49,208
Have him look slick.
1246
01:30:49,310 --> 01:30:51,278
I got to use the toilet.
1247
01:31:18,606 --> 01:31:21,268
- Can I get you some tea?
- No, thank you.
1248
01:31:22,743 --> 01:31:26,179
You know, there's a whole line
of bluesmen on your lawn,
1249
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:28,407
waiting to see if you're dead.
1250
01:31:28,516 --> 01:31:30,006
Looking to see if they owe me money.
1251
01:31:30,117 --> 01:31:31,175
Yeah.
1252
01:31:32,987 --> 01:31:35,581
Look at that. You're the
first man ever gave me flowers.
1253
01:31:35,690 --> 01:31:38,818
- Thank you.
- Yeah, well, don't tell nobody.
1254
01:31:38,926 --> 01:31:41,827
They're beautiful.
I'll put them in a vase.
1255
01:31:42,497 --> 01:31:43,759
You okay?
1256
01:31:43,865 --> 01:31:45,594
I'm good. Thank you.
1257
01:31:46,534 --> 01:31:48,365
- Mud.
- Wolf.
1258
01:31:51,439 --> 01:31:52,497
Shit.
1259
01:31:57,311 --> 01:32:00,678
I know Walter was into you for a whole lot,
but he got anything coming his way?
1260
01:32:00,781 --> 01:32:03,978
- You know how he spent his money.
- Yeah, I know it.
1261
01:32:07,121 --> 01:32:08,452
Look here.
1262
01:32:10,825 --> 01:32:12,816
I got $200 to my name.
1263
01:32:14,829 --> 01:32:17,354
You're gonna have to help pay
for Walter's funeral.
1264
01:32:17,465 --> 01:32:18,489
Who said I wouldn't?
1265
01:32:18,599 --> 01:32:21,762
Why he got to pay for Walter's funeral?
He ain't Walter's daddy.
1266
01:32:21,869 --> 01:32:25,066
Is you and me talking? Walter put a lot of
goddamn money in his billfold, that's why.
1267
01:32:25,172 --> 01:32:27,800
- I'm the only motherfucker making money?
- Looks like it.
1268
01:32:27,909 --> 01:32:31,037
That's the man's job, make money
off of you. You from Mississippi.
1269
01:32:31,145 --> 01:32:34,478
- You ought to know that.
- How many Caddies did y'all go through?
1270
01:32:34,582 --> 01:32:37,073
Let's get this straight.
I didn't fuck you.
1271
01:32:37,184 --> 01:32:38,811
I didn't say nothing
about who fucked who.
1272
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,548
You insinuated that with your bullshit!
1273
01:32:41,656 --> 01:32:44,124
You was out with the fucking jewelry
and the broads all the time.
1274
01:32:44,225 --> 01:32:46,625
And you was a motherfucking saint?
1275
01:32:50,331 --> 01:32:52,094
Who here is a saint?
1276
01:32:52,900 --> 01:32:54,128
Who here?
1277
01:32:55,069 --> 01:32:56,866
- Settle down.
- No, Revetta, please.
1278
01:32:56,971 --> 01:33:00,771
If you act like a boy, keep asking for
handouts, he gonna treat you like one.
1279
01:33:00,875 --> 01:33:03,036
Is you and me talking, motherfucker?
What is you looking for?
1280
01:33:03,144 --> 01:33:06,409
I'm looking to help
bury a fellow musician.
1281
01:33:06,514 --> 01:33:08,379
I said I'll pay for it!
1282
01:33:12,620 --> 01:33:15,453
Now, it feels good not to have a daddy.
1283
01:33:16,757 --> 01:33:20,215
And as much as I don't like you,
I want you to feel good
1284
01:33:21,596 --> 01:33:23,086
like that, too.
1285
01:33:49,523 --> 01:33:51,081
I killed Walter.
1286
01:33:54,028 --> 01:33:56,997
I killed him
when I let you take away his amp.
1287
01:34:00,401 --> 01:34:02,164
I'm the motherfucker?
1288
01:34:05,272 --> 01:34:07,001
I'm the motherfucker?
1289
01:35:08,436 --> 01:35:10,199
It was over,
1290
01:35:10,304 --> 01:35:13,068
the music, Chess Records.
1291
01:35:13,941 --> 01:35:15,636
Everybody could feel it.
1292
01:35:16,644 --> 01:35:19,078
Len was getting
out while he could.
1293
01:35:21,682 --> 01:35:24,845
So, working on something
behind my back now, huh?
1294
01:35:27,555 --> 01:35:29,819
What happened to "Trust In Me"?
1295
01:35:30,991 --> 01:35:33,152
I know what you've been doing.
1296
01:35:33,260 --> 01:35:35,922
- Yeah, what?
- You gonna sell the company.
1297
01:35:43,037 --> 01:35:45,528
You know, back when I started this,
1298
01:35:47,641 --> 01:35:50,576
nobody'd let a black man do
what I got done.
1299
01:35:50,678 --> 01:35:52,373
Doors weren't open.
1300
01:35:55,082 --> 01:35:56,515
Now they are.
1301
01:35:58,018 --> 01:35:59,076
Time to move on.
1302
01:35:59,186 --> 01:36:01,154
You gonna be missing out.
1303
01:36:02,890 --> 01:36:04,949
You don't think I know that?
1304
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:11,122
So, you mean to tell me, this could be
the last time I sing a song for you?
1305
01:36:18,305 --> 01:36:20,068
Better make it good.
1306
01:36:20,541 --> 01:36:22,509
They don't get no better.
1307
01:36:23,544 --> 01:36:24,943
Y'all ready?
1308
01:36:46,867 --> 01:36:49,927
Something told me
1309
01:36:50,037 --> 01:36:53,063
It was over
1310
01:36:55,876 --> 01:36:59,209
When I saw you and her
1311
01:36:59,313 --> 01:37:01,281
Talking
1312
01:37:04,084 --> 01:37:06,575
Something deep down
1313
01:37:06,687 --> 01:37:10,555
In my soul said, "Cry, girl"
1314
01:37:10,658 --> 01:37:13,149
- Cry, girl
- Cry, girl
1315
01:37:13,260 --> 01:37:16,661
When I saw you and that girl
1316
01:37:16,764 --> 01:37:18,994
Walking around
1317
01:37:21,669 --> 01:37:26,697
I would rather,
I would rather go blind, boy
1318
01:37:30,377 --> 01:37:35,838
Than to see you walk away from me
Child, no
1319
01:37:38,652 --> 01:37:42,713
So you see, I love you so much
1320
01:37:42,823 --> 01:37:46,384
That I don't want to watch you
leave me, baby
1321
01:37:47,695 --> 01:37:50,027
Most of all, I just don't
1322
01:37:50,130 --> 01:37:53,622
I just don't want to be free, no
1323
01:37:57,104 --> 01:38:00,403
I was just, I was just
1324
01:38:00,507 --> 01:38:03,305
I was just sitting here thinking
1325
01:38:05,045 --> 01:38:06,478
Of your kiss
1326
01:38:06,580 --> 01:38:10,710
And your warm embrace, yeah
1327
01:38:13,721 --> 01:38:16,281
When the reflection in a glass
1328
01:38:16,390 --> 01:38:20,053
That I held to my lips now, baby
1329
01:38:22,363 --> 01:38:23,990
Revealed these tears
1330
01:38:24,098 --> 01:38:27,499
That are on my face
1331
01:38:31,205 --> 01:38:32,797
And, baby
1332
01:38:32,907 --> 01:38:38,368
And, baby, baby,
I'd rather be blind, boy
1333
01:38:39,546 --> 01:38:42,208
Than to see you walk away
1334
01:38:42,316 --> 01:38:45,649
Walk away from me, yeah
1335
01:38:48,155 --> 01:38:51,352
And, baby, baby, baby
1336
01:38:51,458 --> 01:38:55,121
I'd rather be blind, boy
1337
01:38:57,064 --> 01:38:59,157
Than to see you walk away
1338
01:38:59,266 --> 01:39:01,359
Walk away from me
1339
01:39:05,773 --> 01:39:09,607
And, baby, baby, baby
1340
01:39:09,710 --> 01:39:12,611
I'd rather be blind, boy
1341
01:39:14,548 --> 01:39:16,573
Than to see you walk away
1342
01:39:16,684 --> 01:39:20,677
Walk away from me, yeah
1343
01:39:43,010 --> 01:39:45,444
Chess Records had a hold on Len.
1344
01:39:46,180 --> 01:39:48,444
It just wouldn't let him leave.
1345
01:39:49,216 --> 01:39:52,617
He had a heart attack
before he could turn the corner.
1346
01:39:59,226 --> 01:40:01,888
Baby girl, I got some bad news for you.
1347
01:40:03,931 --> 01:40:06,058
Chess ain't leave no will.
1348
01:40:06,166 --> 01:40:10,227
That means everything that belonged
to him goes to the wife and children,
1349
01:40:10,337 --> 01:40:12,328
including this here house.
1350
01:40:13,307 --> 01:40:14,865
That's all right.
1351
01:40:16,210 --> 01:40:19,111
This morning,
a man came by and gave me this.
1352
01:40:20,447 --> 01:40:22,039
What's that?
1353
01:40:22,149 --> 01:40:24,515
It's the deed to my house.
1354
01:40:24,618 --> 01:40:27,712
He said Len wanted me to have it
in case something ever happened.
1355
01:40:27,821 --> 01:40:29,482
That motherfucker.
1356
01:40:30,591 --> 01:40:34,687
He didn't have time to leave a will,
but he had time to think of me?
1357
01:40:37,264 --> 01:40:38,629
He loved me.
1358
01:40:39,333 --> 01:40:40,960
That motherfucker.
1359
01:40:49,743 --> 01:40:51,768
What do you say, Willie?
1360
01:40:51,879 --> 01:40:53,710
What do you say, there? How you doing?
1361
01:40:53,814 --> 01:40:55,372
I'm here. How you doing?
1362
01:40:55,482 --> 01:40:58,645
Oh, I can't complain. Got some good news.
1363
01:40:58,752 --> 01:41:01,050
Remember some of them English boys?
1364
01:41:01,155 --> 01:41:04,022
They didn't forget about us.
Been telling all Europe about us.
1365
01:41:04,124 --> 01:41:06,524
Want us to come over there and play.
1366
01:41:06,627 --> 01:41:08,458
I ain't got no money to get on no plane
to no England.
1367
01:41:08,562 --> 01:41:12,123
You don't need no money.
They're gonna pay for everything.
1368
01:41:15,736 --> 01:41:16,896
You're serious?
1369
01:41:17,004 --> 01:41:18,904
We're going to England.
1370
01:41:25,712 --> 01:41:27,441
I'm a little bit...
1371
01:41:28,015 --> 01:41:30,040
A little bit nervous here.
1372
01:41:30,150 --> 01:41:33,176
Nervous? What you nervous about?
1373
01:41:33,287 --> 01:41:35,414
You've been performing your whole life.
1374
01:41:35,522 --> 01:41:38,685
Yeah, but not...
Not for these folks over here.
1375
01:41:43,330 --> 01:41:44,524
How am I supposed to know
what they want?
1376
01:41:44,631 --> 01:41:45,893
This is your captain speaking.
1377
01:41:45,999 --> 01:41:48,661
We are now beginning our descent
into Heathrow Airport.
1378
01:41:48,769 --> 01:41:50,100
Here we go.
1379
01:41:57,711 --> 01:42:01,147
Welcome to London.
I hope you enjoy your stay.
1380
01:42:02,683 --> 01:42:04,480
- You all right?
- Yeah.
1381
01:42:15,262 --> 01:42:18,561
- A pleasure to see you, Mr. Waters.
- Mr. Waters!
1382
01:42:25,372 --> 01:42:28,933
They want you, Mr. Waters. They want you.
1383
01:42:29,042 --> 01:42:32,170
We sued Chess Records
for back royalties.
1384
01:42:32,279 --> 01:42:34,110
And we did all right.
1385
01:42:34,214 --> 01:42:36,205
Well, especially me.
1386
01:42:36,316 --> 01:42:40,776
Because I wrote all those songs
that Muddy, Walter and Wolf were singing.
1387
01:42:41,488 --> 01:42:43,046
I got paid.
1388
01:42:43,157 --> 01:42:45,182
And I'm still getting paid.
1389
01:42:45,292 --> 01:42:48,261
I made enough money
to buy this here studio.
1390
01:42:48,362 --> 01:42:51,297
They were going to tear it down,
but I knew it was history.
1391
01:42:51,398 --> 01:42:54,526
I'm a man
Don't matter if you got the upper hand
1392
01:42:55,669 --> 01:42:59,127
We made the kind of music
that can grow into anything,
1393
01:42:59,239 --> 01:43:02,766
rhythm and blues,
rock and roll, hip hop.
1394
01:43:02,876 --> 01:43:06,573
Whatever you're playing, baby,
we're right there with you.
1395
01:43:08,382 --> 01:43:12,910
Just sprinkle a little blues on it
and it's gonna grow up to be big and bad.
1396
01:43:13,654 --> 01:43:15,884
We the hoochie coochie seed.