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Terrence Howard

11 March 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA

James Alexander

William Bell

January 16, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Bobby Bland

January 27, 1930 in Rosemark, Tennessee, USA

Scott Bomar

Ben Cauley

3 October 1947, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Cody Dickinson

Benjamin Flores Jr.

23 July 2002, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Al Gamble

Yo Gotti

Isaac Hayes

20 August 1942, Covington, Tennessee, USA

Teenie Hodges

16 November 1945, Germantown, Tennessee, USA

Jesse Jackson

8 October 1941, Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Booker T. Jones

12 November 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

31 January 1944, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA

Charles 'Skip' Pitts

7 April 1947, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Steve Potts

Bobby Rush

November 10, 1933 in Homer, Louisiana, USA

Snoop Dogg

20 October 1971, Long Beach, California, USA

Mavis Staples

10 July 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Yvonne Staples

October 23, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Marvell Thomas

August 22, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Archie 'Hubie' Turner

Kirk Whalum

11 July 1958, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Martin Shore

Jerry Harrison

21 February 1949, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Rick Clark

Chicago Reader

The premise for this documentary couldn't be more stilted, and some of the matchups are enough to make you wince. But there are a few striking intergenerational moments.

September 25, 2014

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Consequence of Sound

Take Me to the River is a good-spirited but patchy documentary, less about dropping beats and more about dropping names.

January 13, 2015

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Three of the guitar marvels shown here - Hubert Sumlin, Teenie Hodges and Skip Pitts - have died since filming. This is a marginal but worthwhile footnote to their legacy.

September 25, 2014

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Austin Chronicle

It feels like a mishmash effort overall, more a home movie than a theatrical release. That's fine. If you approach it on those terms, you can't help but feel the love, too.

September 25, 2014

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The Film Stage

While you may stick around for the stories, the film's true draw is the music.

February 27, 2016

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Austin American-Statesman

A moving tribute to a grand piece of Americana.

September 25, 2014

Washington Post

"Take Me to the River" includes just enough history of the civil rights era to lend it gravitas. The color-blind recording practices of studios like Stax were an anomaly at the time and are well worth noting.

September 18, 2014

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Los Angeles Times

"Take Me to the River" is at its most interesting when zeroing in on the back-and-forth between musicians of different eras ...

September 11, 2014

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Paste Magazine

While those sessions result in full songs, some of the most memorable, iconic tunes in music history, this film never coalesces into something greater than a collection of mildly interesting pieces.

September 25, 2014

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Boston Globe

Flawed as it is, "River" reminds us where all the great music came from.

September 25, 2014

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