10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads
Director: Noble Jones
Executive Producer: Kelly Norris Sarno
Executive Producer: Devin Sarno
Producer: Phillip Davis
Associate Producer: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Editor: Mark Morton
10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads, directed and shot by Noble Jones, documents a 10 day venture of blues artist Kenny Wayne Sheppard meeting blues pioneers with the intent of spotlighting veterans of the music genre. Artists include Etta Baker, Cootie Stark, and Neal Pattman, as well as B.B. King, Henry Townsend, Hubert Sumlin, Lazy Lester, Gatemouth Brown, Honeyboy Edwards, Pinetop Perkins, and several others. It ends with a concert featuring the surviving members of both Muddy Waters’ and Howlin’ Wolf’s bands. Upon completion of the film, six of the featured musicians had died, adding a cultural significance to the content.
10 Days Out was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. It won the 2008 Blues Music Award for Best DVD [2] and the 2008 Keeping the Blues Alive Award under the category of Film, Television or Video.


