"Where The Only Color That Mattered Was Green"
This 90 minute, 3-act documentary details the rise & fall of Maxwell Street, Chicago's great outdoor market, the birthplace of the electric blues and where "the only color that mattered was green".
Joe Mantegna
Narrator
Bo Diddley
self
Buddy Guy
self
Studs Terkel
self
This 90 minute, 3-act documentary details the rise & fall of Maxwell Street, Chicago's great outdoor market, the birthplace of the electric blues and where "the only color that mattered was green".
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