‘Sinners’: Blues God vs. Celtic Vampires
The new film “Sinners” opened with a title card that read: “Clarksdale, Mississippi, October 16, 1932.” A young Black man, clutching a broken guitar with nothing left but its headstock and fretboard, walked into a makeshift shack-church where his father was leading a sermon. Holding his battered son in his arms, the father prayed, “I want you to swear to me, and before this congregation, to leave those sinning ways where they lie.” I immediately realized that this young man must be a fictionaliz
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