Documentary Film: Juke Joints and Honkytonk Legends
The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the SCETV documentary, Juke Joints and Honkytonk Legends.
Their “Gaillard Auditoriums” are large, non-descript rooms with wooden tables, metal chairs, and a bar. Their “Bi-Lo Center ushers and doormen” are friends and family who double as roadies. Yet, for the love of the music, the performers and fans leave their 9 to 5 jobs to venture down the back roads of small southern communities to remote watering holes for down-home blues, country and western, and bluegrass entertainment. This film is an excursion into a larger-than-life culture with roots that trace back to traditional African and folk music. It explores this nonconformist genre and the people who seek to preserve it.