Desc: Big River Blues: Directed by Michael Almereyda. With Andrei Codrescu. Poet and pundit Andrei Codrescu (Road Scholar 1992) is once again taking the pulse of America, trading his Cadillac convertible for a variety of water craft as he explores, with typical Codrescu wit, wisdom and piercing insight, the entire length of the Mississippi River, accompanied by that most American of musical genres, the Blues.