Louie Blue

A violinist, mandolinist, and guitarist in the black string band style who made a few recordings in the '20s and '30s, Howard Armstrong aka Louie Bluie was rescued from the obscurity of specialist record collections when he was the subject of the Louie Bluie film documentary in the '80s, produced by Terry Zwigoff (more famous for his film Crumb). (Armstrong was also known as Louie Bluie as he issued a single under that nickname in 1934.) In his youth he was in bands with Carl Martin and guitarist Ted Bogan, including the Four Aces and the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, the latter ...