Los Cold Blooded Yesterdays - You're the Life of Me b/w Instrumental

First time filmmaker Shevan Bastian sets out in Jackson Tennessee with these questions in mind, as he interviews and works with a group of musicians, while examining the roots of Black music in a small Southern city on the edge of the Mississippi Delta. 

The documentary film You’re the Life of Me loosely follows the pursuit of creative renewal that Howard Rambsy and Barbara Jean Mercer experience as they engage with music making in their later years. Rambsy has written and arranged an obscure 1977 soul song recorded by a band consisting of his friends and family called Cold-Blooded Express. The song, You’re the Life of Me, is being recreated with the original members of Cold Blooded as well as Los Yesterdays, a younger duo consisting of Chicano members of LA’s burgeoning modern soul scene. Mercer dreams of recapturing some of the freedom of her youth by performing from her catalog for a large community of British Northern Soul fans at a reunion in Detroit.