Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues

Richard Trice, who recorded under the name Little Boy Fuller, was a bluesman who learned his guitar skills from the great Blind Boy Fuller on the streets of Durham, North Carolina. Coming from a time when musical expression wasn't something you simply did, but something you profoundly were, the elderly Trice is seen here confined to a wheelchair (having lost his legs to amputation). We see him interviewed in a nursing home, as well as on a country trip to the site where his boyhood home once stood, and while he's apparently too old to play his instrument, he's still able to communicate clearly, especially when he reflects on his early recording experience and says, "those record labels...are a little fishy sometimes." In the age of Napster and the current battles over music distribution, those words still ring true. A strong optional purchase for larger music collections. [Note: This is also being sold on "home video" for $19.95.] Aud: C, P. (C. Block)