SMART (1985), an unique and very rare Dutch blues documentary.

I do not own the rights to this documentary! (UPDATE: in about three short (view minutes) parts there is no audio. That’s because of music rights issues.) BUT... This 1985 Dutch documentary ‘Smart’ holds unique footage of some known and (kind of) unknown American blues musicians that blueslovers need to see. But it also shows the atmosphere of the Chicago blues scene in the mid eighties and some very nice takes in the Mississippi Delta that period. In Dutch the word ‘Smart’ means ‘feeling blue’. The Dutch type of music about these emotions is called the ‘smartlap’. This documentary follows the famous Dutch female singer Mary Servaes, also known as the ‘Zangeres Zonder Naam’, in The Netherlands. This type of Dutch music is compared to what is called ‘blues’ in the United States. Therefore the American bluesmusician David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards is followed in Chicago and on a trip to the South with a truck (driven by bassplayer Sylvester Boines) hauling living Catfish. Besides the ‘Zangeres Zonder Naam’ and Hon