HONEYDRIPPER

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Honeydripper

It's 1950. Dusty roads and the cotton is high in Harmony, Alabama.

Honeydripper. It's the name of the juke joint run by Tyrone Purvis. Things aren't going well for Ty, whose place is more a social club for old bluesmen than a going concern.

Determined to give it one more shot, and against every instinct, Ty has decided to hire a guitar player—an electric guitar player. When old blues lady Bertha Mae finishes her set in the mostly empty club, Ty tells her she won't be needed next Saturday: Guitar Sam is coming.

Ty, his sidekick Maceo and Ty's stepdaughter China Doll move into high gear to get ready for the big day. Strapped for cash, Ty redirects the liquor truck headed for the neighboring Ace of Spades, sneaks money from his wife Delilah's savings and generally has himself strung out as far as a man can go.

Who's this spooky blues man, blind guitar player who knows all Ty's secrets? He's the one who guides Sonny to the Honeydripper to shake up Ty and move the music along. He's Possum and some folks see him and some don't. Maybe he's the Spirit of the Blues.

Tyrone goes to meet the train. No Guitar Sam. In debt, on the bad side of his good Christian wife, and treading a narrow path with big Sheriff Pugh ready to move in on him, Ty looks to lose all that matters to him.

But there's that kid, that Sonny who came by the club claiming he could play the guitar as good as any Guitar Sam, and looking like he hadn't had a square meal in a week. In a deal with the devil, Ty gets Sheriff Pugh to release Sonny from the gang of cotton pickers he's been pressed into, and they are down to the wire.

As the club begins to fill with servicemen and pickers ready for a good time, China Doll puts the final touches on Sonny's hair and he slips into the sharp suit Nadine whipped up for the night.

Out he steps into the crowded room and Bwang! The kid can play and he rocks the joint with a sound nobody ever heard anything like. Tyrone Purvis—middle-aged piano player afraid of his past and of anything new—is saved by rock n roll.

Honeydripper will be coming to theaters in 2007! Stay tuned...

In the meantime, please take a look at our IMDb entry for information on cast and crew!