13-6-09 <br/><br/>
WARMING BY THE DEVIL'S FIRE 

 -   2003; Vulcan Productions, Inc. 
 - DVD; 106 Min. 
 - MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS: THE BLUES .
<br/><br/> Charles Burnett explores his own past as a young boy who was shuttled back and forth between Los Angeles and Mississippi, torn between an uncle who loved the blues and a mother who believed that the blues was the devil's music.  Burnett's film boldly mixes fictional storytelling with documentary footage of a host of blues legends in a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in Mississippi in 1955, dramatizing the tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel and the devilish moans of the blues. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Music/Dance<br/>History