♪ This little light of mine ♪
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
♪ This little light of mine ♪
♪ I'm gonna let it shine Let it shine ♪
- Sammie! - Ruthie.
Come on, son.
It's okay.
My son has felt the call of sin.
You see what that gets you?
But the good Lord calls upon us to be fishers of men who sin and show them the way.
I want you to swear to me and before this congregation to leave those sinning ways
where they lie.
I want you to promise right now.
Drop the guitar, Satan.
In the name of God.
Let it go, Satan.
Put it down. 21.1
Sinners 21.2
One day earlier
Good morning, Ms. Beatrice.
Did you storm in that gate saw tonight?
You gonna tell me what you playing on?
I'm gonna have to hear it through the grapevine.
You have a good one, Beatrice.
I see you had service tomorrow morning.
Morning, ma.
Morning, baby.
Don't put that on your body, Samuel.
It'll dry it out.
If I put this on while it's still wet.
Boy, you ain't got to say this guy gave a goose.
Hey, mama said get up.
You Hogwood?
You boys twins?
Nah, we cousins.
That's good.
There she is.
They moved a ton of timber a month back in his hay day.
Workers lived upstairs.
Y.
'all wash these floors?
Yeah.
What was on them?
I thought y'all was dead set on buying the place.
The more time I spend with y'all the less sure I am you boys are serious about it.
Ain't no boys here.
I just grow me.
We grow me in money and grow me in bullets.
I ain't mean nothing by it.
Just the way we talk down here.
We'll take it.
The mill, the equipment and the lane that it's standing on.
Damn.
Now understand, it's the last diamond you ever gonna see from us.
And if we see you or any one of your clan buddies cross our property line.
We gonna kill them right where they stand.
Clans don't exist no more.
Okay then.
Alright.
Say.
What do you fellas plan on doing with the place?
Morning, Pop.
You know, Paul, for early, son.
Like you say.
Jump on the work.
Don't let the work jump on you.
Finish my quota for the day.
Yeah.
I brought it in here.
I want you to help me with my sermon tomorrow.
First Corinthians 10.13.
Read.
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind.
God is faithful.
He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.
But when you're tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
Now, Pop, if you don't mind, I'm gonna be late.
Late for what, boy?
Where you gotta be that's more important than being in the house of God?
I've been working all week, Pop.
I'm gonna be free of all this for a day.
I'll be back in town for service in the morning.
Son.
You keep dancing with the devil.
One day he's gonna follow you home.
Little cousin, come on out.
Got two dollars waiting on time.
Same.
Oh, don't you worry now, Uncle Jack.
I'm gonna get them back to you in one piece.
I'm gonna get them back, I'm gonna get them back,
I'm gonna get them back.
See, I told you.
Man, if you know everything, why don't you play it by yourself?
Me?
I'm serious, man.
Play Barry Match and get your skills rewarded.
Barry Match Play Now!
Only when they deserve it.
My ma usually hands out the workings.
Good.
With Uncle Jed always being good.
So tell me about Chicago.
I heard they ain't got Jim Cork there.
A black man can go where he wants.
Boy, you can't be believing anything that you hear.
Time to fill your head up for this Maple Leaf.
Me and your cousin, we gonna give it to you straight.
Chicago ain't shit but Mississippi with tall buildings instead of plantation.
That's why we came back here.
Figure we might as well deal with the devil we know.
Well who gonna watch the truck when I'm in there talking to the chaps?
Nigga, just let them see us you.
We been gone a long time, Stack.
Seven years ain't long enough to forget about us.
Don't move.
How about you leave that truck to us?
Watch this fool make sure he don't get no trouble.
You big enough to take me now, huh?
I'll do what I can.
Lord, you'll do what you told.
We got 24 hours to turn this booze into cash.
You keep your eyes open for anybody staring too long.
This nigga don't know how to watch his own back.
Last time you clean this?
Last time I had to use it?
Shit.
Cracker showing up late already got us behind schedule.
Smoke.
Look at that sky.
That's a mighty fine day to be free, ain't it?
I own Juke Joint.
Just like we always wanted.
Love you.
Love you too.
Be careful.
I will.
You with me.
Come on.
You're not little Lisa, is you?
Guilty as charged.
Your daddy here?
Daddy?
What?
Old child.
Damn cat dragged in.
It's your brother.
All right, listen.
Every cool's got a button on towards the top.
And you want to keep it warm.
You find it.
Lick that.
Not too hard, not too soft either.
How fast this thing drive?
Too damn fast.
Why, you want to drive?
Come on, you don't want to drive.
On the way back.
All right, all right.
Don't tell me.
You and Uncle Jerry, y'all doing okay?
You always said you would tell me what happened to Uncle Adam when I got older.
You gonna kill him?
Nah, we ain't kill him.
Smoke did.
Man, just get your arm down.
Fuck you go, nigga.
Bet this bullet will beat you to it.
You shot me, motherfucker.
Smoke.
Terry?
Boy, how you been?
I was doing better before you shot me in the ass.
Why in the hell you trying to boost my truck?
It's your truck.
I didn't know it was your truck.
I swear, Smoke.
Bullshit, I told you it was his.
Wait, Smoke, I thought she was lying.
Y'all was supposed to be in Chicago working for Capone.
Well, yeah, we back now.
Who he?
Just some nigga I met last week.
Where he from?
Maybell.
Goddamn!
What you do that for?
Can't have some nigga from the Maybell plantation
talking about how he almost robbed the twins.
Not without a limp to show for it.
Well, who gonna patch me up?
I ain't got no money.
What if I get substance or some shit in the ass?
Y'all scoot on out the street.
Put some pressure on them.
Get up, boy.
Our daddy knocked me unconscious.
By the time I came to, Smoke was halfway done burning.
You used to bitch off?
Me mostly.
He ain't mean it.
He's even taking good care of that thing.
Hey, I can't thank y'all enough for this.
You mean it plays so right?
Yeah, that's Charlie Patton's guitar.
Me and my brother won it off in the car game.
Hold on a sec.
You mean to tell me I had Charlie Patton's guitar this whole time?
Swift old guy in your head.
Nah.
Now let's see if you can play like it.
Right here?
Yeah, right now.
Come on.
Watch this.
Travelin'.
She sure won't feel much better We gon' make some money We gon' make some money.
Yo, take off.
Mama, daddy wants you.
Thank you.
Oh, is that Delta Slim?
You know, it's two men out there.
Look like they've been shot.
Would that be my doing?
I done already gave Bo the money to get him patched up.
Why you gotta come here bringing trouble?
Trouble ain't all he bring.
Thank you.
Thank you for your generosity.
I guess that's Chicago win with your black ass in back down there, huh?
Oh, boy.
That's my little cousin, preacher boy Santa.
Happens to be the finest blues player in all of the Delta.
I got socks on in this here, boy.
What the hell?
He don't know about the blues.
I can show you better than I can tell you.
Hold up now.
Hold up, hold up now.
This your mouth patch right here.
Now, you weren't this cousin and a young pup to boot.
I'll cut your ass too thin to fry.
And you threaten him again, I'm gonna make your drunk ass swallow that harmonica.
How you paying for this?
And you want me to make a sign for you?
Rust job, gonna cost you.
How much now?
Twenty.
Fifteen for the front door sign and five for the menu.
Fifteen.
Seven for the front door sign, three for the menu.
Sixteen.
Fifteen.
Done.
Oh, we only got one color by the way.
What color you got?
Red.
Thirteen.
Fourteen fifty.
Fourteen.
With all these flowers right here.
And we got a deal.
Done.
I'll give you twenty dollars to come play at our juke tonight.
I ain't never heard of your juke.
I've been to Messy's every Saturday night for the last ten years.
Messy's gonna be there another ten years after that, at least.
Shit.
There's probably more time than I got left on this horse stack.
I play and I get as much corn liquor as I can drink.
A sinner like me, I can't ask for more than that.
You're a little slim, I'll drink today.
Oh.
What you got, devil?
Oh, this?
It's an Irish beer.
Straight from the north side of Chicago.
You saying that's beer?
When they bring it down here, it's empty handed.
Now, I got five hundred more bottles just like that.
Ice cold.
These two gonna be playing down after y 'all saw me.
You know the one.
The one on the riverbank right outside Clarksdale.
Yeah, yeah.
We gonna have us battling blues.
Y'all ready to eat?
Y'all ready to sweat till y'all stank.
We gonna get funky like a Mississippi donkey, y'all.
Same.
I seen you somewhere before.
Same, don't you?
Time to time.
I'm a preacher, boy.
Curling.
I'm married, by the way.
Happily?
Careful, boy.
You gonna bite off more than you can chew.
Maybe I'll see you tonight.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
She's a white woman staring at you.
Shit.
You sure she white?
She walking over here right now.
Excuse me, boy.
Just hear smoke?
Or is this stack?
Don't, don't look at her.
Just over there and keep playing.
Yeah, it's okay.
You know I would.
I've been waiting for you.
Well, I don't know how in the hell you gonna do that.
Because you told me you loved me.
Well, I told you to stay the fuck away from
me, too, but I guess you didn't hear that part.
I heard you.
I heard you loud and clear, but then you stuck your tongue in
my coos and fucked me so hard, I figured you changed your mind.
Keep your voice down now, Mary.
It's not exactly how I remember it.
Oh, it ain't.
Remember falling asleep with your head on my chest?
Leaving in the middle of the night without a fucking word?
Or a note?
The hell are you doing back here?
I buried my mama yesterday, Stack.
Figured I might see you in smoke there as much as she looked after you both.
But I guess y'all love lasted as long as y 'all could get something out of her.
You're right.
That's all she was.
Fool.
I won't be.
God in hell, Stack.
Yeah, I will.
Save your trifling ass a room.
Right next to me.
Shit.
Hey, Stack.
Who?
Maybe Shane was.
Boys get the getting.
Come on, Slim.
They take us to this big house full of white folks.
Pass around, they hand-hammer us to play.
See these white folks we were playing for?
They had real money.
Had y'all playing them on ragtime songs?
I'm sure was.
They playing a fair amount of blues, Phil.
They take a word with nodding their heads, stomping their feet.
Some of them was almost on the rhythm, Stack.
And the rest of them, they would change it up, confuse them.
See, white folks, they like the blues just fine.
They just don't like the people who make it.
It's got to do with the money.
I drank it.
Rice, they was gonna take that money going out
to Little Rock and start him a little church.
Did he?
That's a damn fool.
He took out all his money to pay for it.
$2 train ticket.
Train conductor saw him.
Clanked, got a hold to him.
Searched his pockets to find all that money.
Made up a story about him killing some white
man for it and raping that white man's wife.
And they lynched him right there in the railroad station.
You know they cut off the man's room.
Hmm...
Hmm... Hmm...
Hmm... Hmm... Hmm...
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Who bought that old saw, ma'am?
Yeah, we gonna patch it up.
Make it into a juke joint.
Juke joint?
This one of stacks that is?
Yeah, you figure tonight gonna be grand opening?
We got word they gonna make booze legal again.
Figure this our last chance to go legit.
I thought y'all was done with the Delta.
If that's the hood, y'all a northern man.
Nah, we through with Chicago.
Chicago through with y'all?
What you asking?
Who you and Stack robbed to get enough money
for them crackers to sell you a whole meal?
Just this, Miss Annie.
And a pinch of high drawing.
All right.
Now, don't sell none of this on the way home.
I don't want your mama coming at me crazy later.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
I can't believe you taking this made-bleed shit.
Smoke, give me my money before I cut your black ass.
You better put that blade up, woman.
I'll trade you.
I don't want your money.
Don't be stupid now.
I ain't stupid.
Your money come with blood.
All money come with blood, baby.
Not like yours.
This shit won't even spin nowhere else.
I ain't going nowhere else.
I don't need that cursed money you got.
You know, woman, I been all over this world.
In clothes.
Chips.
Trains.
I seen men die ways I didn't even know was possible.
I ain't never saw no roots.
No demons.
No ghosts.
No magic.
Just power.
And only money can get at it.
You fool.
All that war and whatever the hells you been doing in Chicago.
And you back here in front of me.
Two arms.
Two legs.
Two eyes and a brain that work.
How you know I ain't pray?
I work every root my grandmama taught me to
keep you and that crazy brother of yours safe.
Every day since you been gone.
So why those roots ain't work on our baby?
I don't know.
But they work for you.
You still got that mojo bag.
Why you here Smoke?
We was hoping to serve food to Juke tonight.
We want you to cook for us.
Elijah.
You won't make me say it.
It still hurts coming back here.
But I love you.
And I miss you.
Hey!
Cumbria!
Stat?
For a long time no see.
This here my wife.
Therese.
Nice to meet you Therese.
Likewise.
Need you to give us a moment.
Men got business to discuss.
No, uh uh.
I ain't got time for your scheming Stat.
Behind on my quota.
Man, fuck your quota.
This is my wife right here now.
I'm going to need you to show some respect.
Well, fuck your wife too.
What's that?
I said she was really going to let you fuck her when she found out how much money
you were about to get from this job I'm offering.
And none of that nice and slow shit she's probably giving you now.
Shit, she might even let you put your pecker in her mouth.
Well, you should have stayed going because I'm about to beat that black up for you.
Come on.
I don't want no trouble.
Hey.
Well, how much money are you talking about paying him?
Oh, that's a good woman.
Come on.
Leave me back.
My uncle taught the word.
You can tell me.
Boy, you're swimming in a sea of temptation.
He don't know.
The same spirit flowed through his church folk.
It flowed through us.
But this your blues.
It'll flow in a different way.
A more honest way, you ask me.
Blues, it wasn't forced on us like that religion.
No, sir.
We brought this with us from home.
From the Delta?
Africa, preach your boy.
Motherland.
The magic will be do.
The sacred will be.
I think you're going to be ready.
I'm always ready to swim.
Help!
Y'all got a help?
I thought I could trust them, but they trying to kill me.
Slow down.
Who's trying to kill you?
Choctaw.
Sure wasn't just some fair skinned niggas.
Ain't no engines around here for miles.
Oh, God.
They took my wife.
Oh, God.
I'm a coward, ain't I?
Hey, I got gold.
Them dirty engines meant to rob me.
They ain't get all of it.
Y'all can have it.
Just don't let them hurt me no more.
Come on.
God bless you.
Put him in the nurse room.
God bless you, ma'am.
They're here!
Evening, ma'am.
We're in pursuit of someone very dangerous.
He might have come onto your property.
Have you seen anyone recently?
No.
Burt!
Is he in there with you, ma'am?
He's not what he seems.
God forbid you let him into your home.
And if so, we need to act now.
Burt!
The engines came and went.
Burt!
He's just resting.
Don't cry.
He's all better now.
Hey, baby.
Ah!
Right this way, baby.
Come on in.
Welcome to Club Jute.
We're about to get it poppin' like Fishner's, boy.
We got whiskey, Irish beer, Italian wine.
Y'all some classy niggas, ain't you?
Too fancy for me.
Ma'am, I don't need no Irish nothing.
Corn liquor, dude.
That'll be 50 cents.
Damn, I just got 30.
But these is good now and after Maybel General store.
You like that cold, right?
I certainly do.
I thank you, God.
Let me holler at y'all right quick.
Good evening.
You look mighty nice.
Thank you.
You made it.
This ain't no house party.
And it damn sure ain't no charity.
We taking cash.
U.S.
small fucking dollars.
This ain't Chicago, Smoke.
The fuck that mean?
That old nigga worked his ass off for them wooden nickels.
See, these niggas been working in the field all day.
When they show up here, let them enjoy themselves.
You gotta feel wanted if you want this here to work.
This place supposed to feel like it's for them.
Right this way.
Uh-huh.
Excuse me, ma'am.
You show you at the right place?
That's a damn good question, Uncle Umbrey.
Little Mary?
Not so little no more, huh?
Little Mary.
When you was selling ass out in Little Rock, you
ever let John pay with a goddamn promissory note?
Hell no.
But see, I wasn't selling ass in the Delta.
You gonna play?
You gonna shine?
We'll see where the night takes us.
Your husband coming?
He's out there.
Shit.
Hold on.
Excuse me, ma'am.
I don't think you should be here.
You see, I'm with the twins.
With the twins?
Boy, if you don't get the fuck out my face.
I am with them, ma'am.
We met earlier at the train station.
I'm their little cousin.
Little cousin?
I think you should leave before they see you.
Wait, you now, little Sammy.
The guitar.
You old enough to drink now?
Come on, let me buy you a drink.
I don't know who do.
And I can't talk slick.
But I know business.
And this is bad for business.
It's opening night.
Besides, I want to be a few of them like this.
I need a goddamn cigarette.
Coming right up.
So you play that guitar that left you?
Yeah.
That's good.
You making any money with that thing?
Not really.
Not yet.
At least.
I tell you, it didn't matter as long as you love it.
But that'll be horseshit advice.
What are you?
What am I?
I'm a human being.
Oh, that ain't what I meant.
You know, more like... I know what you meant.
My mama's daddy was half black.
He raised her to keep the clan from killing her.
You know my mama delivered the twins.
Really?
Saved stack life after he got stuck in them all.
And after she died, my mama nursed them like they was her own.
And they had enough money to buy this whole mill.
And they ain't even flowers to a few.
You sent your mama flowers.
Plenty of them.
All while she still a lot of smell.
Smell.
Am I right?
Let's go check in on Slim, see if he don't need backup.
Take care of her, I'll wait.
No, no, I'm gonna handle it.
I got it.
Alright, go on.
Come on, let's go.
I'm not here for you.
And why are you here then?
I come to hear the blues.
Oh no, they play the blues just fine in Arkansas.
Come on.
What's going on?
How much did it get you to get the fuck on?
You can't pay me off.
Fine.
I'll pay one of these field bitches in here to drag your ass out there.
Shit, you taught me how to fight.
I beat up every bitch in here and you know it.
I taught you how to walk away when the money is up too.
Got you a rich white husband.
Got you a farm, now go home to it.
I ain't ask for none of that.
Oh, that shit was your idea.
I ain't want no white man.
I didn't want to be white, I wanted to be with you.
You know I ain't shit.
Maybe I ain't shit neither.
Oh, they're taking the wrong person in here to see you before they get back to
them crackers and they gonna try to kill you.
What had matter to you?
Somebody out there hurt you.
Me and my brother gonna come kill them all.
I was young enough to believe you were coming back.
I waited.
I waited a long time.
But I'm grown now, stay.
And I know you never planned to stay.
Why can't you just say that?
Say what?
Hmm?
That I love you.
That I think about you every day.
I just want to keep you someplace safe.
And I was never gonna be here.
I've been hearing about this one particular young man all day.
He supposed to be a bad blues man.
Where's your boy?
Where he at?
Come on over here man.
That's my little cousin y'all.
Watch this.
Tell me where you are.
Where you from?
Don't sell me more.
I'm a sharecropper from Sunflower Plantation.
They call me preacher boy, counting my daddy being a pastor.
I wrote this song for him.
Something I've been wanting to tell you.
For a long time.
It might hurt you.
Hope you don't lose your mind.
Well I was just a boy.
About eight years old.
And threw me a Bible.
On that Mississippi road.
See I love you papa.
You did all you could do.
And they say the truth hurts.
So I lied to you.
Yes I lied to you.
I loved you.
Somebody take me.
In your arms tonight.
Somebody take me.
In your arms tonight.
Somebody take me.
In your arms tonight.
The secret.
Has been.
They got us trapped here preacher boy.
But this here music.
We escape.
We backwards to ancestors.
Somebody take me.
We reach forward to all that was yet to come.
In your arms tonight.
Somebody take me.
In your arms tonight.
Somebody take me.
Imagine what we do.
Now it's stop time.
I hope you can stand it.
Stand it all.
When I'm out here doing it.
You didn't preach at all.
See I'm full of the blues.
Holy water too.
I know the truth hurts.
So I lied to you.
So preachers.
Speak your words.
I know the truth hurts.
Yes I lied to you.
But with this here ritual.
With you.
We bring them all.
Right here with us right now.
Somebody take me.
With you.
We heal our people.
And we be free.
Lord of the King.
Keep your foot on it Elise.
Lord.
I want to try something.
Wait.
Preacher boy.
In the last shop.
It's locked here.
You're beautiful.
I just want to taste you.
Excuse me.
How y'all doing?
Good.
Alright then.
Preacher boy.
Hey.
Smoke wants you.
Check out my little cousin.
He call himself telling me about the cotton.
I said shit.
That boy don't know nothing.
Get the twins.
Come on.
Get them.
I'll tally the teal.
Ain't.
What's the count?
Now that top figure.
That's plantation money.
That bottom figure.
That's real dollars.
So what's the projection?
Two months and we had our first cash.
Hey there.
Good evening.
How may I help you folks?
We heard tale of a party.
Drink, food, lose music and the like.
You did?
We like to drink.
We happen to be musicians and we walked here.
So.
We hungry as dogs.
Woof woof.
You remind us coming in.
Now would you?
I think y'all in the wrong place.
What makes you say that?
You fellas must be the owners of this establishment.
That's right.
And you are?
Name's Ramek.
This here's Joan and Bert.
They start yelling, right?
Oh, and you.
Must be that voice I heard from out here.
It was beautiful.
God damn beautiful voice.
Even through these walls.
Where y'all from?
Just down the road.
And how far is that?
Carolina.
Y'all clean?
Sir.
Well.
We believe in equality.
And music.
We just came here to play.
Spend some money.
Have a good time.
Here, I'll show you.
I pick poor Robin clean.
Pick poor Robin clean.
I pick his head.
I pick his feet.
I woulda picked his body, but it wouldn't fit to eat.
So I pick poor Robin clean.
Pick poor Robin clean.
And I'd be satisfied having a family.
Good tags ain't bad.
Lord, didn't that J.
Bird laugh?
When I pick poor Robin clean.
Poor Robin clean.
I pick poor Robin clean.
Lord, didn't that J.
Bird laugh?
Hold on, hold on.
Just a minute.
It's just about to get good.
Now, I believe ya, but this here a juke joint.
Blues music?
We got money and we ready to spend it with y'all.
Sounding damn near perfect and you're saying we ain't welcome?
No, I'm saying you get down that road, you get back into town.
Plenty of white barrel houses down there.
Ah, this is cause we're...
Alright.
How'd she get in?
She here, cause she family.
Family.
Can't we just... for one night... just all be family?
You don't even do that, sir.
We'll be on our way.
But we're gonna walk real slow.
Just in case y'all change your mind.
This is gonna happen inside.
Hey, if you know everything, why don't you play it yourself?
I'm serious, friends.
Play Parry Match.
And turn your skills into rewards.
Win big.
And enjoy the fastest withdrawals.
Parry Match.
Play now.
Y'all have a nice night.
They gave me the willies.
Man, well, a cracker's at night time.
I'll do that to you.
Well, I just asked.
What if Harwood will set us up?
I knew we should've killed that clan motherfucker.
Mr. Sammy, can you just give us a little space?
Just a little bit, please?
Thank you.
Now, slow down, Smoke.
I don't think they got nothing to do with each other.
You think they ball company?
I doubt it.
But we got enough pepper on us if they do.
Shit, we forgot the trunk.
Man, why ain't you remind me?
Before I told you to remind me.
I don't need the trunk.
There was just three of them.
Now listen to me.
What if they just came to say?
And what if somebody spilled something on them?
Step on their shoe.
Look at they woman a bit too long.
We gonna have a bigger problem than just a fight.
Sure will do.
Don't let them in.
They said you wanna talk?
Sing your performance down there.
You wrote that song?
Yeah.
I got a few of them.
Hey, I can't thank you enough for this.
I mean, y'all the ones who put that guitar in my hand.
Now this.
You got the talent, that's for certain.
With all this, ain't no life for nothing.
I know Bobby.
I know plenty of musicians.
Ain't never met a happy one.
Yeah, he's cute now.
But he get old.
That rambling.
Sammy, you got something else in you.
What's your day shuttle do?
I'm heading off on my own.
Where you going?
Maybe Chicago.
You heard about Bobby?
What?
Right here in Mississippi.
A small town.
Founded by free slaves.
No crown and everything.
Black home.
That sound like a crap.
Well, I seen it.
One day our daddy beat Stack real bad.
So we get in our minds it's time for us to run away.
See me, I wanted to go to the next plantation over.
But Stack, he figured we'd get them out by you.
So, got us a map.
Stole us a car.
And I got us there.
Why y'all ain't stay?
The mayor.
He didn't warn us.
Sammy, we was kids.
See the thing is...
That mayor knew who our daddy was.
Knew he was an evil man.
Figured there was no way that he ain't pass that evil down to us.
See what I'm getting at.
Your daddy a preacher.
You can go and do that.
You like making music?
Make church music.
You wanna leave?
Go on down Mount Bayou.
Live with the proper black folks.
Leave all this here and proper shit to us.
I can't do that.
I mean, being with y'all today...
Smoke, I feel like I'm flying.
Yeah?
Well, you better enjoy the rest of the night, cause this your last jute.
Come tomorrow, I'll find out about you planning one of these.
Boy, I'll kill you myself.
Well, I ain't going to Mount Bayou.
My daddy a reverend.
But I'm y'all cousin too.
And a lot more people know the smokestack twins than they know my daddy.
Look, I'm leaving that plantation just like y'all did.
And if that's a problem for you, kill me now.
What's wrong?
We in the packed house.
But we underwater.
How?
All the plantations down there paying with credits.
All the plantations?
Yeah, seem that way.
What about them crackers?
What about them?
I can go feel them out before they're too far gone.
I can feel them out myself.
They'll tell me more than they'll tell you.
I can find out what they really have.
And what happens if they from Little Rock?
They ain't.
Let me go get this money for us.
I know y'all need it.
And what's that supposed to mean?
Irish beer, Italian wine.
You rob both sides.
Let them blame each other while you and Smoke come down here and set up shop.
You gonna need every dime you can get when they put two and two together.
But they won't.
They might.
Let me go talk to them and see about putting something real on the two.
Come on.
The wind goes around.
the blue lasso cone And we'll all go together
to go wild mountain time all around the.
blue lasso cone I will build my.
little Are you looking for some fresh air?
I just come to see if y'all was good people.
Aw, darling, that's so sweet of you.
So sweet.
We most surely are.
And y'all got money to spend.
Oh, yeah.
Plenty money.
You want to see?
Yeah, I want to see.
What type of money is this?
Solid gold, kind, darling.
Yeah.
Where's this from?
It's from a different place and a different time.
And it spends just the same.
You can have it.
But it's no good to you.
It's no good to her.
Mm-mm.
Well, what makes you say that?
Because you're in some deep, deep pain that money can't fix.
Am I right?
You came over here for fellowship and love.
Fellowship and love.
My mother...
She just passed.
Aw, that's awful.
Aw, just awful.
Just awful.
Losing a mother's a hurtin' feeling.
Mm-hmm.
I wish in my heart that we'd have met sooner.
I would have liked to have saved her mother from her fate.
I can still save you from yours.
Oh, now you must have me confused.
I'm sad, is all, but I don't need no saving.
Yes.
Yes, you do.
You all do.
Ooh.
I'm gonna head back now, and I think y'all should, too.
Back to wherever y'all came from.
Mm-hmm.
Our pines come lard away until the sun does rise.
Leave the day by the, by the day.
The sun don't shine once more, that's what I said.
Come on, Brad.
Man, what you done out here?
You gonna let me in?
I'll just sit there, blocking the door.
No.
Come on.
Come on in.
I'm gonna spend my money on something sweet and strong.
I'm gonna move my body through the whole night long.
Man, it's hot in there, boy.
Hey, watch the door for me.
I got the pill.
Hold on, hold on.
Boy, you ain't shit.
Oh, watch the door.
Elias.
So what happened?
Hell yeah.
What, they wanna drink to this or something?
You sure?
Okay, go on in.
Shit, go out there and tell them to do something.
Man, you scared.
You scared.
Nah, it's just that you somebody else's.
So you rob chains and banks.
But you can't steal this pussy from me.
What the.
hell is going on?
This son of a bitch had loaded dies from wearing outside.
Best you put that blade down.
Can't do that to him.
Told him not to put his hands on me.
So you gonna cut me too?
If I had to, I just wanna be allowed to leave.
Help!
Go check his pockets.
Get.
your dirty ass hair in my way.
Easy, boy.
Y'all gonna take care of this fool.
Help!
I wanna...
Sing.
Baby.
You drew one.
You want some?
Yeah, you don't need some stitches.
I'll get my brother.
Hey, Slim.
You seen Stack?
Oh, yeah, he in the back.
In the back.
Hey, you can go.
Go ahead.
Hey, Stack, Smoke looking for you.
Oh, shit.
Oh, he busy, huh?
You go get him?
No.
Then why the hell not?
He was getting some lucky.
I don't give a fuck what he doing.
I told you to go get him, didn't I?
I ain't doing that by myself.
Oh, shit.
Hey, where the hell is Cormbray?
The crowd is building you a new outhouse.
The nigga left to take a piss two damn days ago.
And he left you to watch the door.
You think I can't handle it?
Y'all get decent.
I'm coming in.
Y'all can hear playing around some...
Fuck!
Smoke.
It's not what it looks like.
This is true.
We gonna kill every last one of you.
What happened?
Where is she?
Did you hear me?
I'm so scared.
I want you.
I'm so sorry.
Slim.
Keep everybody out.
Hey, Slim.
Who the fuck is shooting there?
Y'all gonna bring the music back?
The hell with the music, Slim.
Is Sammy in there?
Yeah, yeah.
Sammy out the records.
Park's over, y'all.
Oh, no!
Y'all got to go.
All right, all right.
You're in the man.
Go on, go on, go on.
We really appreciate y'all.
Go on.
It's getting good.
See you soon.
We got us a problem, y'all.
I could have stopped it.
Don't do that.
I thought they was making love.
Sammy, this is not your fault.
It's not really that...
Did she say anything?
She said we gonna kill all of you.
We?
She said we.
Smoke.
We gotta move his body.
Outside.
Just for now.
Don't touch him.
Nobody move him.
You shot her.
And she kept running like nothing happened.
This ain't we dealing with it's fault.
Or worse.
We gotta keep everybody inside.
And the dead body out.
This ain't no dead body.
It's that...
standing here with me.
Talking all that magic.
You got any magic to bring my brother back?
I got a module back for him.
Please.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
He gone.
We gotta go.
We gotta get out of here.
We lost his brother.
We came here to help him with the party.
Not this.
We gotta go home.
Lisa's waiting.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's go home.
Who get the car?
I'll get the car.
Okay.
Watch over him.
What happened?
Come.
here.
Hey, bro.
Where the hell you been at, man?
To go see a man about a dog.
Like I told you, you're drunk.
Turns out I need to take a shit too.
God dog!
What happened to you, Smoke?
Stacked dead.
Nigga, what the fuck happened to you?
I'm sorry.
All right.
Well, let me in so I can help.
Hold on.
What y'all doing?
Just step aside and let me on in now.
Why you need him to do that?
You being strong enough to push past us?
Well, that wouldn't be too polite now, would it, Miss Annie?
I don't know why I'm talking to you anyway.
Probably your fish sandwich messed up my guts in the first place.
Using old stale grease.
I ain't never used stale grease, and you know it.
Shut up, Annie.
Don't talk to him.
You talking to me right now.
Why you can't just walk your big ass up in here without an invite, huh?
Go ahead.
Admit to it.
Admit to what?
That you dead.
That one of them white folks out there kill you, and you a hank now.
So you listening to this?
Woman, this man showed me kindness.
Employed me.
Grabbed me out the field.
Now he say his brother been killed.
The man needs comfort.
Now you filling up his mind, that old Louisiana.
Buy you bullshit you on.
Now we out here playing games.
Telling ghost stories.
In place of doing what we ought to do.
Cornbread.
Yeah.
At what is it we supposed to be doing?
Being kind to one another.
And being polite.
Now we is one people.
And we shouldn't go in barging into other folks places uninvited.
So... We been in and out of here all day.
Ain't never need an invite then.
Yeah.
Something ain't adding up.
Shit, stack was my ride up here.
I'm supposed to walk back?
Ain't my problem.
Well, it be your own people.
Now I thought you was better than that.
But you just like the white man.
Can I at least get my money?
Oh, you did such a bang up job.
Now you want to get paid for what you ain't did?
Ain't nobody talking to you, you old drunk.
Shut your mouth.
You shut the fuck up.
Don't give me shit, Smoke.
Don't give me nothing.
Careful.
Did he get you?
I'm alright, I'm alright.
What the hell was that?
I don't know.
Hey.
You smell anything?
No.
I think I shat myself.
Oh my god.
How the hell did you get up?
I don't know.
What you thinkin' is he?
I don't know.
Yes, I really know.
Shut up.
Smoke.
Stay.
And is that you?
Nah, fool.
It's Jim Crow.
Nigga, of course it's me.
Open the door.
Stay.
How you feelin'?
Well, you lost a lot of blood.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It was scary, huh?
I'm doing much better now.
I swear.
On Mama Grace.
I thought you said he was dead.
He was.
I checked his pulse.
Then what the fuck is he doing talking to us?
But this is good, right?
Means he's okay.
Smoke.
That ain't your brother.
You gonna let her get in between us again?
What we been through.
German trenches, nigga.
Chicago gangways.
Come on, man.
Open the door.
It's me.
Y'all think you're sweet lockin' a pimp in a closet, huh?
You know I don't like this shit, man.
Please, Smoke, let me out of this room.
Smoke, please.
Hey, give me the key.
Bitch.
Hey!
Sam, come here.
What was in the drawer?
Pickled garlic.
These ain't haints.
They're vampires.
Bo's out there.
We gotta go get him.
I'm the one who sent him out there.
We can't let you do that.
He needs my help.
Bo know how to handle himself.
Probably got in that car and got some place safe.
Y'all ain't gonna keep me from my husband.
Grace, we trying to keep you alive right now.
We just gotta hold up till sunrise.
Okay?
Now we need...
garlic...
wood...
silver... holy water.
How could it move and sound like shtack... if it ain't shtack?
I only ever heard stories.
I ain't never come across them myself.
What stories you heard?
How haints work.
They switch places with the soul of a man.
The vampires is different.
Maybe the worst kind.
The soul gets stuck in the body.
Can't rejoin the ancestors.
Cursed to live here with all this hate.
Can't even feel the warmth of a sunrise.
Okay then.
Can we bring him back?
The best thing we can do for him is free his spirit from this curse.
How the hell do we do that?
Sunlight.
That wouldn't staked at all.
Hell any.
I kept that boy safe all these years.
All over this world.
What a night.
It's cause of me.
My daddy told me.
He said the devil was coming on account of my music.
You know how that gal wants vampire?
He light-skinned it too.
That gal bit me everywhere above my neck.
Sonny...
You don't worry about a thing, yeah?
The devil done came for me plenty of times.
If he come knocking tonight...
He gonna have to go through his old friend Delta's slam before he get to you.
That go for everybody in here.
If I get bit by one of them... Promise me right now...
That you'll free me before I turn.
But you ain't free you.
I got somebody on the other side waiting for me.
They waiting on you too.
You understand?
Look at me.
I don't care about what that shit say.
I'm gonna make sure you get a home safe.
Sammy!
Smoke!
Who did this?
Was it Stag?
Or Mary?
Nah.
It ran straight out.
You saw them.
Who bit him then?
We gotta get him out before he wakes up.
They're playing music.
Bye bye.
Let's get back inside.
Come on.
We're going down the rocky road.
To double it.
One, two, three, four, five.
Up the hair and turn.
We're going down the rocky road.
We're going all the way.
To double it.
Whack, balalida.
We're going down the rocky road.
We landed on the cage of sleds.
We said, we got to get back.
We worked and set and pulled.
We ran right up the board and got it.
We're going down the mountain pit.
We played some funny riffs.
We danced some hearty tips.
We went up the holly head.
We're going down the rocky road.
To double it.
One, two, three, four, five.
Up the hair and turn.
We're going down the rocky road.
We're going all the way.
To double it.
Whack, balalida.
We're going down the mountain pit.
We said, we got to get back.
We ran right up the board and got it.
We played some funny riffs.
We played some hearty tips.
We ran right up the board and got it.
We played some hearty tips.
We went up the mountain pit.
We played some hearty tips.
We ran right up the road.
We're all going to eat this clove of garlic.
I much like the taste of it.
Ain't no one saying you got to like it.
We just got to figure out if any of us left is one of them.
You want to get none of the pickled ones?
This is ridiculous.
Put the gun down.
Shut up.
Eat, or I'll shoot.
Put the gun down, smoke.
She ain't no damn vampire.
How the hell you know that?
Just eat the damn garlic, girl.
Smoke!
I'm trying to keep you alive, boy.
You ain't the question, Lee.
Are you evil, man?
No wonder the devil come for us.
You ain't got to point no gun at me.
Slim, what's going on, man?
Talk to me, Slim.
I have one thing I can fix for you.
What's going on, Slim?
I drank too much.
The goddamn beer from Chicago.
My nerves all fucked up.
I'm fine.
See?
You sure that was blood?
Hey, smoke, let me in, man.
Smoke, smoke, let me in.
Smoke, I swear I paid my time, man.
That's what this about.
Whatever you need, man.
Smoke!
Some weird shit going on out here, Smoke.
I know you're here, Smoke.
Smoke, let me in.
What the fuck?
Oh, shit.
Close it up, come on.
Wait!
Hey, baby.
Come on outside, I got the car started.
Let's go.
What is it, Grace?
He's killing him.
Are you talking about that?
Now, don't worry about cornbread.
You're just a little hungry, that's all.
Go.
Come on.
Come on and go, we got the car warmed up.
Or...
You can let me back in there.
I don't come in and we can grab our things and head home.
Don't listen to him.
Grace, we're gonna find a way out of this, I promise.
I am your way out.
This world already left you for dead.
Won't let you build.
Won't let you fellowship.
We will do just that.
Together.
Forever.
It's better this way, baby.
So why don't you go ahead and invite us in.
You should listen to him, Grace.
Or listen to me.
Because I know everything he knows now.
And I want you to let us in there.
Or we gonna go to the grocery store, we gonna pay little Lisa a visit.
No, no, don't you fucking dare!
Oh yeah, Grace, I know everything now.
This can't be real.
You're the devil.
Ain't you?
Sammy!
Sammy, Sammy, Sammy.
Traveling.
I don't know where in the world I've been.
Y'all give him to me now.
Just give me a little Sammy.
We'll let y'all live.
I'm gonna tell you something.
You got damn Peck or what?
You can't have him.
He belongs to us.
He belongs with us.
You can't have him.
And I ain't gonna let that happen.
You can't save him.
Smoke no more than you could save your brother.
You ain't safe here.
No matter how many guns or how much money,
they gonna take it from you when they want.
You built something here tonight and it was beautiful that it was built on a lie.
Hogwood.
He's the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
That's his motherfucking nephew.
They was always gonna kill you.
I just happened to show up at the right place at the right time.
You tell him the truth, Swump.
I can see his memories.
This wasn't no juke drawing, no club.
This here is a slaughterhouse.
It's a goddamn killing floor.
Why can't y'all just go?
We're not leaving without y'all.
We're family.
Ain't that right?
I know it sounds crazy, but after we kill
y'all, we gonna have heaven right here on earth.
Hey there.
Come on.
Welcome.
Come on.
Smoke, that ain't your brother.
Fuck you, nigga, it is me.
A lie is small.
And I'm talking to my big brother right now, Slim,
so I'm gonna kindly ask you to shut the fuck up.
You was never gonna be free.
You been running around everywhere looking for freedom.
You know damn well you was never gonna find it.
Until this.
This is the way.
Together.
And I ain't doing this shit without you.
There is no me without you.
What's it gonna be?
No.
Close the door.
No vision.
He said he was gonna take our daughter.
You can't believe him.
He was just trying to get you to let him in.
He ain't threatening your children.
He just gotta stay through the night.
And what?
Let him kill my family?
Kill the whole town?
Turn everybody to monsters?
That white devil spoke Chinese.
He gotta blow his mind.
We gotta stop him, Smoke.
We gotta get him before they get away.
Grace, just slow down.
Give me a second to think.
Ain't you a soldier?
Didn't you just shoot two men for touching your truck?
They killed your brother.
Made Stack, one of them, my beau.
Said they was gonna kill Lisa.
If now ain't go time, then I don't know what is.
We supposed to wait the night while they take more of our loved ones?
Make them demons?
You don't look like they leaving, Grace.
Shut your drunk ass up, Slim.
I ain't drunk right now.
Shut your mouth, woman.
What you doing?
Stop that, come on.
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No, no, no.
Let go of me, god damn it.
We'll kill all of them.
Let it go, let it go.
We gotta think.
Grace, we gotta think.
We gotta think.
Come on.
Come on in, you motherfuckers.
You promised me.
I'll see you soon.
How are you?
Annie!
No!
Smoke.
We gotta get the boy at the back, he's not here.
Come on.
Smoke, come on now.
Up the steps, go ahead.
Sammy.
Now what I told you.
Go!
Now go!
Go ahead.
They still nasty.
Hell wants some of this.
Last call and they'll be seen.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Sammy.
Move!
Go!
Let it all work out.
Here you go on a QA.
I'm fucking bored with you, man.
I want your stories.
And I want your songs.
And you gonna have mine.
My father, which art in heaven, will be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us a spare heart everywhere.
And forgive us our trespasses.
And please forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation.
But deliver us from evil.
Amen.
Long ago, the man who stole my father's land forced these words upon us.
I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort.
Hey, hey, throw your hands through.
Oh boy.
Motherfucker.
Those men lied to themselves and lied to us.
We told stories of a god above and a devil below.
And lies of a dominion of man over beast and earth.
Jesus.
We are earth and beast and god.
We are woman and man.
We are connected.
You and I.
To every...
Shit!
You will taste the sweet pain of death.
We will make beautiful music together.
Go on.
And bury that fucking guitar.
I can't.
It's Charlie Payne's.
What?
The boy who told you that?
What's that?
He said y'all want it over.
Lying son of a bitch.
That's our daddy guitar.
Be strong, hear me?
Hear me?
I got some business to handle.
Alright.
Be strong.
And if we see you or any one of your clan buddies cross our property line,
we gonna kill them right where they stand.
Okay then.
Club Juke, huh?
Grand opening, grand closing.
Let's do it.
Open it up.
Come on son.
It's okay.
My son has felt the call of sin.
You see where that gets you?
Door is locked.
Try the front.
This one is too.
But the good lord calls upon us to be fishers of men who sin and show them the way.
I want you to swear to me and before this congregation to leave those sinning ways
where they lie.
I want you to promise right now.
Drop the guitar, Satan.
In the name of God.
My prodigal son has returned.
I know some of you will.
You hear the call of the devil.
Trying to steal you away.
Stick talking men and goose women.
You can let them call.
And not answer.
You tell me.
My heart.
My body.
My voice.
My soul.
You got a cigarette?
You got a hell, nigger.
You put that cigarette out, you can hold it.
I don't want any smoke to get on it.
Hey, listen.
I got money.
Huh?
No.
Paul was here.
Let it go, Satan.
Drop the guitar.
Put it down.
Hey, boss.
I got two out there.
I told them to close, but they offered a couple hundred bucks.
Is that okay with you?
That don't bother me, no.
Come on in.
Satan!
I'll have whatever the old man had me.
How?
When I saw him kill Annie, I knew I had to get Mary out of there.
She hid in the woods.
Asked for me.
So I could keep you safe.
I won't be sorry.
You always be.
I guess I was the one person he just couldn't kill.
He made me promise to stay away from you.
That you live out your life.
You know, we got every single one of your records.
I don't like that electric shit as much as the real.
Yeah.
I miss the real.
Records from back then sound like a pile of dog shit.
How about it, Sammy?
You still got the real in you.
Traveling... I don't know why the hell I'm here.
Take care, little Sammy.
You know something?
Maybe once a week, I wake up paralyzed.
Relive it that night.
But before the sun went down...
I think that was the best day of my life.
Was it like that for you?
No doubt about it.
Last time I seen my brother.
I love you.
Last time I seen the sun.
And just for a few hours...
It was free.