Premiere Date: July 30, 2002
Synopsis
Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong has been performing for most of his 91 years, ever since his father carved his first fiddle from a wooden crate. Leah Mahan’s Sweet Old Song plays like one of the ballads that flow effortlessly from the funny and irrepressible Armstrong. At the film's center are the two great loves of Howard's life: his music and artist Barbara Ward, age 60. Their two-decade romance has been a creative partnership yielding new work and an outpouring of memories. Their experiences are captured in Armstrong's lively paintings and stories of nearly a century of American life. As they take on life's challenges, Howard and Barbara defy our most basic assumptions about what it means to grow older.
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Touch By Your Story
Hello, I just watch your story on TV. I was touch my your story. I was so touch, I really would like to meet the two of you. In the story, I saw when his brother pass. I thought it was Howard (Pache) and I got so disappointed because while I was watching this story, I felt a connection and really want to meet you both and just set down and have a long talk. Then the story continue and their he was still alive and well.
I got up after the story at 3:000 a.m. in the morning and went to my computer to do some research on him. I search said pass on wednesday. Then I notice in 2008. My heart drop again, because I really want to meet this man and his lovely companion, Barbara Ward Armstrong.
I am writing this because that's what I set out to do. Will you please response as to Mr. Armstrong status, live or decease.
I really enjoyed the story. I was moved in such a way, I felt compel to write you. I fell in love with an older man, but he didn't love me back. I think he concerned himself with what people and family thought and pleasing me. I try to explain to him that when you love someone certain things fall in place no matter what. I think he love another. I grieved his absence from my life. I think of him often, but I set him free like a bird.
When I meet him he was 75, I thought it was 60. He's 77 now and do things around the farmer like a younger person. I never look at him and so his age. I really didn't believe he was 75.
He is a farmer. He has a garden and chickens and rabbits and fruit trees and a tractor. I enjoyed being on the farm and picking vegetables and canning pears and apples and peaches. I enjoyed sitting on the porch and taking in nature. It wasn't meant to be. I have to look at it that way inorder to move on.
I was really touch by the story when you and Pache visted his home town and when to the cementary where his parents are. He set their on the head stone and somehow I was glad he had his instrument. Playing at that time, I really feel somehow a connection was made with his parents.
I'm artistic and love working with my hands. I felt such a connection with your story and with you and your companion as I saw the story. Would love to meet you both.
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by Juliette Watts from Birmingham, Alabama
September 11, 2009, 4:55 AM