12. Sinners

We had the great pleasure of welcoming Charla's daughter Michelle on this one.  She brought a lot of great insights into this instant classic. Music is a hellava drug. In the last film Queen of the Damned it woke up the first vampire from back in the days of Mesopotamian Uruk. And in this one it wakes up all kinds of stuff both good and bad. The music industry has been known to have vampiric relations with artists, especially Black musicians. The story of Black music in America is rich and complex and full of both appropriation and exploitation. The blues especially has had a fascinating journey from the Mississippi Delta to the Northern cities of the Great Black Migration. The originators such as Buddy Guy, whose life story is loosely depicted in the movie, brought it from the Southern Black Church to the Northern Bar and club scene frequented by a mostly White cliental. But Smoke and Stack who are twins, both played by Micheal B. Jordan, are bringing it back along with many unintended consequences to a blessed, but mostly cursed, Southern juke joint for a one night extravaganza like no one has every seen.

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