About The Soul of a Man
- Released on May 16, 2003
In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.
Full Cast of The Soul of a Man
Laurence Fishburne plays Self - Narrator
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for...
See Laurence Fishburne's other roles →Chris Thomas King plays Blind Willie Johnson
Keith B. Brown plays Skip James
J.B. Lenoir plays Self (archive footage)
Skip James plays Self (archive footage)
T Bone Burnett plays Self
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter.
See T Bone Burnett's other roles →John Mayall plays Self (archive footage)
Lucinda Williams plays Self
Bonnie Raitt plays Self
Marc Ribot plays Self
