Murder Ballads Amyn

Blurb

A meditation on music, race, obsession, and how far someone will go tosee their vision become real, Murder Ballads follows the fall and reinvention ofNate Theodore, the dead-broke and deadbeat owner of a failed record label who ison a cross-country drive in the dead of winter with his wife Mary, fleeing thewreckage of their business and heading towards the destruction of theirmarriage. But Nate is given an unexpected chance to redeem himself when, duringan unscheduled detour, he "discovers" Donny and Marvell Fontweathers, twoAfrican-American brothers who play a singular version of doom-laden countryblues. Convinced that the brothers are the key to his salvation,Nate's desperate to make an album with the brothers before someone else findsout about them-but he needs money. Money he doesn't have and can't getthrough any conventional means. So he persuades Donny and Marvell to join him ina crazy scheme: they'll undertake a minor crime spree to raise the funds neededto produce their record. Naturally, complications arise for this wannabemodern-day Alan Lomax and his soon-to-be stars, and just like in the murderballads the Fontweathers Brothers play, the body count starts togrow.. Music contributed by Dan Auerbach and RobertFinley."