This is a great film. I felt it was wonderfully gritty and Jeff Bridges played this role to a tee. Being musician myself, I can attest to the pitfalls assciated with this life style. The only critisism I have is the unreal way the script dealt with the unlikely way this young woman so easily and quickly fell in love with Bad Blake(Bridges' character). At times Maggie Gyllenhaal, Blakes's love interest, seemed that she couldn't stand being around him because of his drunkeness, but subjected hersefl and young son to him anyway.