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Legendary Stew of the South"
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A Southern Tradition"
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A Taste of South Carolina
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Primitive Camp meetings
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OLGERS’ STORE
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> SOUTHERN STEWS:
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> STEWBILEE: A Brunswick
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> THE SHEEP STEW OF DUNDAS
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WORKS IN PROGRESS:           MAC ARNOLD: Nothing to Prove...documentary  feature film

NOTHING TO PROVE
Mac Arnold Returns to the Blues

This MAC ARNOLD & PLATE FULL O' BLUES  documentary is in editing. Funding is needed to match two grants awaiting matching funds to be raised locally.  

Donors sending contributions to the Mac Arnold Documentary Film Fund (tax deductible) at the Community Foundation of Greenville (27 Cleveland Street, Greenville, SC 29601) will receive a free 20 minute DVD of MAC's BEST PERFORMANCES shot during the making of this documentary

For more information call us at

864-284-6422

(Greenville,SC)

This is the final folklife documentary production by Stan Woodward. It involves the capture of 170 hours of footage over a four-year period starting in 2004 and travels the viewer from Mac’s decision to return to the blues (after a 32 year hiatus from his remarkable stint as bass player for the Muddy Waters Chicago Blues Band).

It also includes the release of his first CD to Mac’s fulfillment of his dream three years later: to return the last remaining artists who played with Muddy in that era to his own blues festival in Greenville, SC.


In between we follow the band each step of the way as Mac and Plate Full O’ Blues makes it’s remarkable climb back into the national and international blues world.

Currently receiving grants and contributions from “Friends of Mac Arnold” and sponsors to help pay for editing and post-production, which became more costly after the producer suffered a minor stroke. Stan had to put together a team of assistant editors to carry the burden of assembling the 170 hours into roughcut elements which can then be creatively cut into final works. This is work that the producer would have handled himself prior to the stroke, but additional editors and the amount of footage that has to be logged, transcribed, edited and has increased the cost of post-production.

Those interested in contributing gifts to offset the cost of post-production can make tax-deductible gifts (for which a letter will follow acknowledging receipt) to:

Mac Arnold “Nothing to Prove” Documentary Fund
Community Foundation of Greenville
Attn Bob Morris, Executive Officer
27 Cleveland Street
Greenville, SC 29601
864-233-5925