The Chicago-produced, Chicago-themed feature film The Rhythm and the Blues, will be screened at the historic Lincoln Center in New York City’s African Film Festival, Saturday May 11, 2024. Actor Leon (The Temptations) stars as the frustrated unsung 1960s-era blues guitarist Eddie Taylor Sr., challenged by a corrupt industry, family drama, and British rockers' appropriation of his music. Broadway actor/bluesman Guy Davis appears as Eddie’s better-known road partner Jimmy Reed--racked harmonica, epileptic…
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