MooPig Movie Reviews :: Honeydripper

"I wish you were Dumb, instead of Blind ..."
Reviewed by Pat Darnell with Saul Buck

How many times have you had to break your guitar-impersonator of your special-guest lead-guitar-player who didn't show up, out of jail to play your Saturday night last-chance live money-show gig?

How many times have you picked cotton, or caught a boxcar and rode with cooties, just to get to the next stop, no matter where it is? How many radio operators coming out of the Army become electric guitar players?

Rockin' Handmade, Handcrafted, One of a Kind Guitars by New Jersey Man to Star in Upcoming Movie :: Ted Crocker makes one of a kind guitars, two of which to be featured in a [ ... ] film. Crocker was chosen over all other custom guitar builders to create 'Honey Dripper', the starring guitar in the [ ... ] film 'Honeydripper'. (SOURCE)

Yes, and how many rHoads must a black man walk down before he gets paid? Momma said so. No this movie is not about a new Vegas act, nor does it entertain like Vaudevillian Chapelle, rags to richer rags story.

Ty Pinetop's Guitar Sam Impersonator can get away with it, there are no pictures of Dark Town "Guitar Sam" to post in towns. It's only a name and a hope; young girls hope to see a real celebrity, men just want their women to glow again. Danny G and friends post posters and set the buzz around town.

Proprietor of the Honeydripper, Danny G as Tyrone Pinetop Purvis, is trying to keep his place even though his creditors have begun calling in their receivables. Ty P Purvis's story unfolds as he tries to make one last date, Saturday night, pay all his debts and re-establish the beauty of live music.

Ty Pinetop has not let a guitar player in the Honeydripper since he killed one many years back when he and the guitar player fought between songs. Morgan F, as Tyrone Pinetop Purvis, is the piano player man... but you'll have to see it to figure all that out.

Hey, that begs a question: "In a bar fight -- who would win, the piano player, or the guitar player? Eh?"

Purvis's wife and her daughter have caught religion, and leads to furthering Purvis' anxiety. " You got to kneel before the Savior and pray, ...come the judgement day..." and, " ... the Lord don't want nobody to suffer, He want you to stand up..."

“Honeydripper”, starring Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Clark Jr., Keb' Mo', Stacy Keach and Mary Steenburgen, depicts 1950’s rural Alabama

Fake "Guitar Sam" Jammy Songwrtier Veteran of Foreign War writes this song earlier Saturday afternoon, while getting his hair gerry-curled, "China Doll, can't get you off my mind, gotta let you into my heart "

Tyrone Pinetops' demons depart? You'll have to wait to see, but here's a clue: "... don't nothing rhyme with Montcrief no how."

" ... Got good Rockin' tonight ... Have you heard the News?" sings our Delta Guitar Sam.

"Thank you Jesus," sighs Mrs Pinetop Purvis.

Yes, Guitar's back in the House called Honeydripper... talk about your venues.

[end of review:: pdaf]