juke joint
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Lindo is up for best supporting actor at the Oscars this month for his role in “Sinners” as Delta Slim, a blues musician who helps fight a vampire horde in a Mississippi juke joint.
The “Sinners” star won the Actor Award for lead actor for portraying the film’s twin ex-mob enforcers turned juke joint owners, Smoke and Stack.
From Los Angeles Times
As the juke joint crowd responds, he loses himself in the timeless transcendence artists hope for.
From Los Angeles Times
Black bar owners were early adopters and patrons called it the jukebox, the music machine playing down at the “juke joint.”
Michael B Jordan is nominated for best actor for playing twin brothers who return home to Mississippi in the 1930s to set up a juke joint, which is set upon by blood-sucking vampires.
From BBC
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