When a rock star's career hits rock bottom, he reunites with his former bandmate for a road trip that forces them to confront their troubled past and rediscover their love for music.

An intimate look at the lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf sidemen. The film captures some of the last interviews and their final live performances together, before their deaths in 2011. The historic live shows are accompanied by performances and personal insights from many of the blues and rock stars these legendary sidemen inspired including; Bonnie Raitt, Gregg Allman, Derek Trucks, Shemekia Copeland, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joe Perry, Joe Bonamassa and Johnny Winter.

Born in 1953 amidst the oppression and abuses of the Jim Crow South, Larry Brown reflects on his tumultuous life that led to a murder conviction, subsequent 34-year prison sentence and the salvation that a mother's love and a guitar provided.