Dr. Augusta Palmer’s new documentary, The Blues Society, is a much more powerful piece of filmmaking than your typical music documentary. The film opens with the legend (scrawled onto the casing of a pink cassette tape): “This is a moving image mixtape about a 1960s Blues Festival held in Memphis, TN.” (Tape flips) “Not everyone sees these events the same way.” Reflecting on the Memphis Blues Festival, which ran from 1966 to the end of that most colourful decade, this is a story that needs to be told. This was the most unique of events that frames the political landscape of the late 1960s as much as the likes of other era-defining gatherings, Monterey and Woodstock, perhaps even more. Essentially, this was a Blues festival featuring long-lost original bluesmen, pulled back into the limelig...