The Music Maker from Barefoot Workshops on Vimeo.

The Music Maker, 19 minutes

A film by Julia Drapkin & Patrick Crews
Produced by Barefoot Workshops, Inc
Instructors: Chandler Griffin & Damien Blaylock
Created: February 2007, Clarksdale, MS © Barefoot Workshops

Everybody who knows Clarksdale, Mississippi knows Mr. Tater the Music Maker - even if they can't understand a word he says or sings. The bus boy at Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club stutters when he talks and he can't play traditional chords.

Mr Tater The Music Maker, Foster Wiley, left us on September 9, 2010.

He was one of the last celebrated blues street musicians in Mississippi.

We miss you Tater. You touched us all.

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