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Article: State man's graphic novel draws blues star's interest: Keb' Mo' involved in film option for ?Bluesman'.
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- Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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Byline: Matthew Price
Jan. 19--Oklahoma graphic-novelist Rob Vollmar's "Bluesman" may soon get a larger audience -- with help from a blues superstar. The "Bluesman" graphic novel has been optioned for a film treatment, and Grammy-winning blues artist Keb' Mo' is attached to produce the movie's sound track and act in a supporting role. In "Bluesman," traveling musicians Lem and Ironwood crisscross the Deep South in the 1920s, moving from juke joint to juke joint. When the musicians get caught up in a murder, Lem finds himself running from a racist posse. The series, available in three 80-page installments, has been praised by the Library Journal, ...
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