Bustopher 'Knobby' Jones, contemporary of Lightin' Hopkins and sideman to Sonny Terry (after the death of Blind Boy Fuller and prior to his partnership with Brownie McGhee), is the last survivor in a long line of Delta bluesmen. Today, even as his picture hangs in museums, Knobby struggles for gigs. Lately, the only stages that will have him are in gentlemen's clubs. His descent to skin clubs stems from the evolution of his art. Travel with Knobby across America as he confronts ageism, racism, sexism and jism. Whether old, young, black or white, people are uncomfortable with his crude, folksy honesty. Knobby finds a nation ill at ease with his art, unless that art is censored to fit middle class norms and is confined within sterile museum walls. As is often the case with the blues, Bustopher's newly found audience comes at a price.
