MUG SHOT PRODUCTIONS

BLACK WAX is a musical-political entertainment film produced and directed by Robert Mugge. It centers on the late African American poet-singer-songwriter Gil Scott-Heron - the man Melody Maker called...

BLACK WAX is a musical-political entertainment film produced and directed by Robert Mugge. It centers on the late African American poet-singer-songwriter Gil Scott-Heron - the man Melody Maker called...

Since the 1960s, generations of fans have adopted outdoor festivals as the ideal place to experience live musical performances. But in recent years, the best American music festivals have moved...

This program delivers a wonderful, nostalgia-laden tribute to the Hollywood stars who took their show "on the road" to American troops abroad in World War II. Along with film clips of Jack Benny,...

In 1976, "music filmmaker" Robert Mugge created his first music-related film. Titled GEORGE CRUMB: VOICE OF THE WHALE, it was this dazzling, 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning and...

Robert Mugge's music documentary explores the twin careers of respected physician and musician Dr. John Peterson and the music and arts venue he owned and helped operate in downtown Muncie, Indiana...

Following a 1974 personal tragedy that left him badly scarred and culminated in the suicide of a girlfriend, soul singing superstar Al Green turned his passions to worshipping the Lord and serving as...

In 1987, Robert Mugge completed HAWAIIAN RAINBOW about the many styles of Hawaiian music. In 1989, with the help of kumu hula (master dance teacher) Vicky Holt Takamine, he completed KUMU HULA:...

THE KINDOM OF ZYDECO looks at the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and at attempts, in the mid 1990s, to name a new "king of zydeco." The music's original self-proclaimed "king" was...

Robert Mugge's 2003 music documentary, LAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI JUKES, explores the fading traditions of rural Mississippi juke joints. The blues was first played by itinerant musicians in juke joints...

New Orleans Music In Exile Blu-Ray

Robert Mugge is a filmmaker with a music critic's sensibility. His good taste in subjects is matched by the subtle way in which he let's his movies reveal all the music that fits. The result is...