Movie Details
Original Language:English
Bottle Up and Go
DirectorBill Ferris
18 minDocumentary
Plot
This film follows Louis Dotson a farmer and musician in Lorman Mississippi as he constructs a onestring guitar on the wall of his front porch Dotson also blows the bottle using a CocaCola bottle partially filled with water Both his bottle blowing and his onestrandonthewall are important links between African musical roots and the blues The onestrand marks the beginning of the slide guitar style which heavily influenced 20thcentury blues rock and roll and rock music
