Timothée Chalamet has clocked into his shift as “young Bob Dylan” and is already filming scenes where he’s singing as the music legend.
On Monday, Chalamet was captured in New Jersey filming a scene for the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown alongside Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez.
The clip sees Barbaro and Chalamet surrounding a microphone while strumming their guitars before he starts playing the harmonica. Director James Mangold previously revealed that Chalamet would do his own singing in the Dylan-approved film.
Timothée Chalamet, as Bob Dylan, and Monica Barbaro,...
On Monday, Chalamet was captured in New Jersey filming a scene for the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown alongside Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez.
The clip sees Barbaro and Chalamet surrounding a microphone while strumming their guitars before he starts playing the harmonica. Director James Mangold previously revealed that Chalamet would do his own singing in the Dylan-approved film.
Timothée Chalamet, as Bob Dylan, and Monica Barbaro,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Timothee Chalamet & Elle Fanning Film Scenes for Bob Dylan Biopic 'A Complete Unknown' in New Jersey
Timothee Chalamet is spending the day filming the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic!
The 28-year-old Oscar-nominated actor was joined on set by Elle Fanning as they filmed A Complete Unknown on Tuesday (April 9) in Paterson, New Jersey.
Photos: Check out the latest pics of Timothee Chalamet
In the film, Timothee plays famed singer Bob Dylan while Elle, 26, plays Sylvie Russo, an artist and university student that Bob was romantically involved with in the ’60s.
Later that night, Timothee was seen wear a black cap and carrying a guitar case as he filmed some more scenes.
A Complete Unknown, directed by James Mangold, also stars Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax, and P.J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal.
If you missed it, Timothee revealed one of his hopes for the movie.
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The 28-year-old Oscar-nominated actor was joined on set by Elle Fanning as they filmed A Complete Unknown on Tuesday (April 9) in Paterson, New Jersey.
Photos: Check out the latest pics of Timothee Chalamet
In the film, Timothee plays famed singer Bob Dylan while Elle, 26, plays Sylvie Russo, an artist and university student that Bob was romantically involved with in the ’60s.
Later that night, Timothee was seen wear a black cap and carrying a guitar case as he filmed some more scenes.
A Complete Unknown, directed by James Mangold, also stars Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax, and P.J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal.
If you missed it, Timothee revealed one of his hopes for the movie.
Click through the gallery inside for 40+ pictures of...
- 4/10/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Timothee Chalamet is spending a late night on set of his upcoming Bob Dylan biopic.
The 28-year-old Oscar-nominated actor looked just like the music icon as he crossed the street and filmed scenes for A Complete Unknown on Sunday night (March 24) in New York City.
Photos: Check out the latest pics of Timothee Chalamet
For his time on set of the James Mangold-directed movie, Timothee sported black sunglasses, a brown suede coat, a black shirt, brownish-green pants, and tan suede boots.
Earlier that day, Timothee was seen filming scenes with co-star Edward Norton, who is playing Pete Seeger.
The following day, Deadline reported that Scott McNairy, Dan Fogler, Will Harrison, and Charlie Tahan have joined the cast of A Complete Unknown in undisclosed roles.
The movie also stars Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax, and P.J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal.
The 28-year-old Oscar-nominated actor looked just like the music icon as he crossed the street and filmed scenes for A Complete Unknown on Sunday night (March 24) in New York City.
Photos: Check out the latest pics of Timothee Chalamet
For his time on set of the James Mangold-directed movie, Timothee sported black sunglasses, a brown suede coat, a black shirt, brownish-green pants, and tan suede boots.
Earlier that day, Timothee was seen filming scenes with co-star Edward Norton, who is playing Pete Seeger.
The following day, Deadline reported that Scott McNairy, Dan Fogler, Will Harrison, and Charlie Tahan have joined the cast of A Complete Unknown in undisclosed roles.
The movie also stars Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax, and P.J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal.
- 3/26/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Monica Barbaro is getting in tune with the 1960s. The Top Gun: Maverick star was recently spotted in New York City filming scenes for A Complete Unknown, an upcoming biopic about Bob Dylan.
Barbaro will play iconic musician (and Dylan’s girlfriend) Joan Baez in the movie. Timothée Chalamet will play Dylan. The movie focuses on the young Dylan’s days as an aspiring folk singer in New York and his rise to fame in the early ‘60s.
Monica Barbaro is seen on location during filming for the Bob Dylan biopic titled ‘A Complete Unknown’ on March 24, 2024 in New York City | Gotham/Gc Images
Barbaro clutched a guitar and a suitcase as she filmed a scene from A Complete Unknown in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood on March 24.
Monica Barbaro during filming for ‘A Complete Unknown’ | Gotham/Gc Images
Barbaro’s character, wearing a brown jacket, hails a cab while filming the upcoming movie,...
Barbaro will play iconic musician (and Dylan’s girlfriend) Joan Baez in the movie. Timothée Chalamet will play Dylan. The movie focuses on the young Dylan’s days as an aspiring folk singer in New York and his rise to fame in the early ‘60s.
Monica Barbaro is seen on location during filming for the Bob Dylan biopic titled ‘A Complete Unknown’ on March 24, 2024 in New York City | Gotham/Gc Images
Barbaro clutched a guitar and a suitcase as she filmed a scene from A Complete Unknown in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood on March 24.
Monica Barbaro during filming for ‘A Complete Unknown’ | Gotham/Gc Images
Barbaro’s character, wearing a brown jacket, hails a cab while filming the upcoming movie,...
- 3/25/2024
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Production on the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, is currently underway. Over the weekend, star Timothée Chalamet was seen filming at various locations in Manhattan, providing us with some of our first glimpses of him in character as the legendary bard.
Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown documents Dylan’s arrival to New York City in 1961 and the years of stardom that followed. Alongside Chalamet as Dylan, the film stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax. Check out a gallery of set photos below.
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Dylan himself reportedly gave Mangold notes for the script. “I’ve spent several, wonderfully charming, days in his company, just one-on-one, talking to him,” Mangold said of Dylan. “I have a script that’s personally annotated by him and treasured by me.
Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown documents Dylan’s arrival to New York City in 1961 and the years of stardom that followed. Alongside Chalamet as Dylan, the film stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax. Check out a gallery of set photos below.
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Dylan himself reportedly gave Mangold notes for the script. “I’ve spent several, wonderfully charming, days in his company, just one-on-one, talking to him,” Mangold said of Dylan. “I have a script that’s personally annotated by him and treasured by me.
- 3/25/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Timothée Chalamet and Edward Norton are out on the streets to film their upcoming movie A Complete Unknown!
The two actors were spotted on set on Sunday (March 24) in New York City.
In the film, Timothée plays famed singer Bob Dylan. Edward will portray Pete Seeger.
Edward shot his scenes outside of a courthouse, where held and played a banjo.
Timothée sat on a park bench and read some notes.
A Complete Unknown also stars Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax, and P.J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal.
James Mangold is directing the movie.
If you missed it, Timothée Chalamet revealed one of his hopes for A Complete Unknown.
Browse through the gallery for more photos of Timothée Chalamet and Edward Norton filming A Complete Unknown…...
The two actors were spotted on set on Sunday (March 24) in New York City.
In the film, Timothée plays famed singer Bob Dylan. Edward will portray Pete Seeger.
Edward shot his scenes outside of a courthouse, where held and played a banjo.
Timothée sat on a park bench and read some notes.
A Complete Unknown also stars Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax, and P.J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal.
James Mangold is directing the movie.
If you missed it, Timothée Chalamet revealed one of his hopes for A Complete Unknown.
Browse through the gallery for more photos of Timothée Chalamet and Edward Norton filming A Complete Unknown…...
- 3/25/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
There may not be a more daunting artist from the twentieth century (and beyond) to grapple with in any form than Bob Dylan. The folk music legend is regarded by many as the most influential songwriter of the last 60-plus years, and, at the age of 82, is just as relevant today as he was in his rebellious young adulthood. He pricked the nation's conscience in the early 1960s with classic protest anthems like "The Times They Are a-Changin'," "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," inspiring many a teenager and twentysomething to pick up an acoustic guitar and sing their truth. Then, in what his folkie colleagues/admirers took as a betrayal, he went electric. This would be the first of many confounding transformations. In a way, he kept throwing fans off the scent of the big "Who is Bob Dylan?" question by, every few years, getting...
- 3/23/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Just last summer, experts on the intersection of AI and music told Rolling Stone that it would be years before a tool emerged that could conjure up fully produced songs from a simple text description, given the endless complexities of the finished product. But Suno, a two-year-old start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has already pulled it off, vocals included — and their latest model, v3, which is available to the general public as of today, is capable of some truly startling results.
In Rolling Stone‘s feature on Suno, part of...
In Rolling Stone‘s feature on Suno, part of...
- 3/22/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Production is now underway on “A Complete Unknown,” the coming Bob Dylan feature directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet as the iconic American musician. Set photos from the New York City shoot have emerged online, offering a first look at the 28-year-old actor in costume.
“A Complete Unknown” will follow Dylan’s emergence in the New York folk music scene during the 1960s after the singer-songwriter moving from Minnesota to New York.
In the first look from set, Chalamet can be seen wearing an old-looking scarf and layering up with some gloves and a thick jacket. Looks like a snowy day in New York for young Bob Dylan. Of course, he’s lugging around a guitar too.
Along with Chalamet, the cast for “A Complete Unknown” is also reported to include Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash.
“A Complete Unknown” will follow Dylan’s emergence in the New York folk music scene during the 1960s after the singer-songwriter moving from Minnesota to New York.
In the first look from set, Chalamet can be seen wearing an old-looking scarf and layering up with some gloves and a thick jacket. Looks like a snowy day in New York for young Bob Dylan. Of course, he’s lugging around a guitar too.
Along with Chalamet, the cast for “A Complete Unknown” is also reported to include Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash.
- 3/18/2024
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Shooting on the “not really a Bob Dylan biopic” A Complete Unknown is currently underway in New York City, and the first photos of Timothée Chalamet as the legendary singer-songwriter have emerged.
The long-in-the-works film, directed by James Mangold, traces Dylan’s journey from Minnesota to New York to meet Woody Guthrie through his memorable 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival when he plugged in an electric guitar to the dismay of folk fans.
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A Complete Unknown — which was originally titled Going Electric...
The long-in-the-works film, directed by James Mangold, traces Dylan’s journey from Minnesota to New York to meet Woody Guthrie through his memorable 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival when he plugged in an electric guitar to the dismay of folk fans.
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- 3/17/2024
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
James Mangold’s Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, is switching bandmates as Edward Norton replaces Benedict Cumberbatch as the American folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger. Cumberbatch must exit the project because of scheduling issues. The biography stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, with Monica Barbaro playing Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax.
James Mangold directs from a script written by Jay Cocks (Gangs of New York), with Mangold making revisions. A Complete Unknown focuses on a young Bob Dylan (Chalamet) who rocks the music world in 1965 by performing with an electric guitar for the first time, alerting people to a new sound for his signature brand. Meanwhile, Sylvie Russo (Fanning) enters the story as a university student, artist, and Dylan’s early-’60s love interest. Production for A Complete Unknown is gearing up for a New York production.
James Mangold directs from a script written by Jay Cocks (Gangs of New York), with Mangold making revisions. A Complete Unknown focuses on a young Bob Dylan (Chalamet) who rocks the music world in 1965 by performing with an electric guitar for the first time, alerting people to a new sound for his signature brand. Meanwhile, Sylvie Russo (Fanning) enters the story as a university student, artist, and Dylan’s early-’60s love interest. Production for A Complete Unknown is gearing up for a New York production.
- 1/25/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Gordon Lightfoot — a genius-level Canadian singer-songwriter whose most enduring works include “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain,” and “Rainy Day People” — died on Monday, the CBC confirmed. He was 84.
Lightfoot’s deceptively simple songs, which fused folk with pop and country rock, have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, and the Replacements.
He scored a series of hits in his native Canada throughout the Sixties,...
Lightfoot’s deceptively simple songs, which fused folk with pop and country rock, have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, and the Replacements.
He scored a series of hits in his native Canada throughout the Sixties,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Iconic actor, musician, and lifelong activist Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. The cause, per his longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine, was congestive heart failure.
Belafonte’s singing shaped a musical consciousness for generations of Americans, from traditional folk music and spirituals to Caribbean calypso and protest songs. His acting in films such as “Carmen Jones” and “Odds Against Tomorrow” won praise and helped pave the way for Black performers who would follow. And his activism took him to the front lines of the civil rights movement, where he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., lobbied for the release of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and joined other stars to raise money for famine relief on the African continent. Realizing from an early age the power of celebrity to advance social change, Belafonte was among the rare few to have been equally entrenched in the worlds of entertainment and politics with genuine results to spare.
Belafonte’s singing shaped a musical consciousness for generations of Americans, from traditional folk music and spirituals to Caribbean calypso and protest songs. His acting in films such as “Carmen Jones” and “Odds Against Tomorrow” won praise and helped pave the way for Black performers who would follow. And his activism took him to the front lines of the civil rights movement, where he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., lobbied for the release of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and joined other stars to raise money for famine relief on the African continent. Realizing from an early age the power of celebrity to advance social change, Belafonte was among the rare few to have been equally entrenched in the worlds of entertainment and politics with genuine results to spare.
- 4/25/2023
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Imagine a 2022 version of the rustic harmony and song-splurge electricity of Bob Dylan and the Band’s Basement Tapes, and you’ll have a pretty decent notion of what Big Thief are up to on their fifth album. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You is a 20-song double-lp in which the much-beloved Brooklyn band chases its indie-folk sound all over the backyard in search of new wrinkles and revelations. “Change, like the wind/Like the water, like skin,” singer Adrianne Lenker offers, signaling the album’s mutable intentions at its deliberately lovely outset.
- 2/11/2022
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
After sitting in a cardboard box for nearly 60 years, a collection of previously unreleased Son House recordings will finally see the light of day with the arrival of Forever on My Mind on March 18, 2022 via Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound.
The recordings come from a Nov. 23, 1964 performance Son House gave at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana; five months later, the blues legend cut his seminal 1965 Columbia Records album, The Legendary Son House: Father of Folk Blues, which introduced him to a new, wider audience.
Forever on My Mind features...
The recordings come from a Nov. 23, 1964 performance Son House gave at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana; five months later, the blues legend cut his seminal 1965 Columbia Records album, The Legendary Son House: Father of Folk Blues, which introduced him to a new, wider audience.
Forever on My Mind features...
- 12/15/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Whenever Adia Victoria found herself struggling to write about the South while confined at home throughout 2020, she would turn to the soil. The one source of creative comfort she found was the imposing magnolia tree visible just outside her mother’s house in North Nashville.
“I got really close to that tree,” says the singer-songwriter and artist. “I’m from South Carolina, and like a lot of kids, I grew up in the shade of a magnolia, where I would create worlds with my little sisters and all the little girls in the neighborhood.
“I got really close to that tree,” says the singer-songwriter and artist. “I’m from South Carolina, and like a lot of kids, I grew up in the shade of a magnolia, where I would create worlds with my little sisters and all the little girls in the neighborhood.
- 9/17/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Istituto Luce-Cinecittà is joining Rai and Palomar on the documentary about famous Italian resistance song Bella Ciao, which recently featured in Netflix series Money Heist.
Bella Ciao – The History Beyond The Myth now combines three of Italy’s leading production players. The team has begun filming in Italy and is aiming to begin overseas production this fall.
Director Giulia Giapponesi will travel to countries where the Italian song has taken roots, including the U.S., Chile, France, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Spain, where the song has been given new impetus by Money Heist.
Bella Ciao is an Italian protest folk song that originated in the late 19th century, sung by the mondina workers in protest against the harsh working conditions in the paddy fields of North Italy. The song was modified and adopted as an anthem of the anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War.
Creative Producer of Palomar...
Bella Ciao – The History Beyond The Myth now combines three of Italy’s leading production players. The team has begun filming in Italy and is aiming to begin overseas production this fall.
Director Giulia Giapponesi will travel to countries where the Italian song has taken roots, including the U.S., Chile, France, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Spain, where the song has been given new impetus by Money Heist.
Bella Ciao is an Italian protest folk song that originated in the late 19th century, sung by the mondina workers in protest against the harsh working conditions in the paddy fields of North Italy. The song was modified and adopted as an anthem of the anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War.
Creative Producer of Palomar...
- 9/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A new Johnny Cash live album, recorded in San Francisco in 1968 by famed taper and audio engineer Owsley Stanley, is set for release September 24th via the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG. Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24th, 1968 finds the country legend performing in the heart of Haight-Ashbury, and the performance has been teased with Cash’s rendition of “I’m Going to Memphis.”
Recorded just days before the release of his best-known live album, Live at Folsom Prison, Cash historian Mark Stielper tells Rolling Stone...
Recorded just days before the release of his best-known live album, Live at Folsom Prison, Cash historian Mark Stielper tells Rolling Stone...
- 6/24/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, flew into Woodstock while working for the Band, helped coordinate George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh, and was aboard the famous Festival Express, during which the Band, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and others rode a train around Canada, playing concerts along the way.
But those days were just the beginning of Taplin’s unique journey.
But those days were just the beginning of Taplin’s unique journey.
- 4/20/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.
Parker McCollum “Love You Like That”
Love is a complicated mess that requires careful navigation around old wounds, trying not to rip them open again. Texas native Parker McCollum drops himself into just such a situation in “Love You Like That” from his new EP Hollywood Gold,...
Parker McCollum “Love You Like That”
Love is a complicated mess that requires careful navigation around old wounds, trying not to rip them open again. Texas native Parker McCollum drops himself into just such a situation in “Love You Like That” from his new EP Hollywood Gold,...
- 10/19/2020
- by Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
This talkative documentary retraces the steps of pioneering musicologists Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins 60 years on
‘Relevant today more than ever,” says one interviewee in Southern Journey (Revisited), pointing out his Easy Rider pin badge. “Man went looking for America and couldn’t find it nowhere.” But this roving, loquacious documentary does its damn best to pin down the American soul, going on a road trip through Virginia, Kentucky and Mississippi in the tracks of ethnomusicologists Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins on their 1959 “Southern Journey” in search of the south’s musical traditions.
Directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester are ostensibly about the music. Their first porch stop is with a Salem, Virginia woman whose dark, purposeful eyes are a spitter for her grandmother: Appalachian balladeer Texas Gladden, who was doorstepped by Lomax 60 years ago. There are heart-stopping performances, and we are apprised of the odd informational gem, lsuch as...
‘Relevant today more than ever,” says one interviewee in Southern Journey (Revisited), pointing out his Easy Rider pin badge. “Man went looking for America and couldn’t find it nowhere.” But this roving, loquacious documentary does its damn best to pin down the American soul, going on a road trip through Virginia, Kentucky and Mississippi in the tracks of ethnomusicologists Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins on their 1959 “Southern Journey” in search of the south’s musical traditions.
Directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester are ostensibly about the music. Their first porch stop is with a Salem, Virginia woman whose dark, purposeful eyes are a spitter for her grandmother: Appalachian balladeer Texas Gladden, who was doorstepped by Lomax 60 years ago. There are heart-stopping performances, and we are apprised of the odd informational gem, lsuch as...
- 9/23/2020
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the former Confederacy, has been celebrated as a holiday by many black Americans since shortly after the historic events of June 19th, 1865. This year, with the movement to end racial injustice back in the news, a number of companies have taken steps to formally recognize Juneteenth. One of them is Bandcamp, the independent music platform, which is giving its revenue share from all sales made on June 19th to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in solidarity with protesters. That means any purchase...
- 6/18/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Blistein, Jon Dolan, Kory Grow, Claire Shaffer, Brittany Spanos, Hank Shteamer and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan and T Bone Burnett are collaborating with Americana group Bear and a Banjo on their new eight-song project, Variety reports. Dylan contributed lyrics to the project’s “Gone But Not Forgotten.” The project is due in early 2019.
Bear and a Banjo is a two-man band of Jared Gutstadt, the cofounder of production company Jingle Punks and hitmaker Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd. The duo are also planning a podcast that complements the songs. The eight songs were co-written and recorded by Poo Bear and produced by Burnett. The music...
Bear and a Banjo is a two-man band of Jared Gutstadt, the cofounder of production company Jingle Punks and hitmaker Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd. The duo are also planning a podcast that complements the songs. The eight songs were co-written and recorded by Poo Bear and produced by Burnett. The music...
- 12/18/2018
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
In his latest podcase/interview, host Stuart Wright talks with Tim Plester, the co-director of The Ballad of Shirley Collins – which is out now. The DVD with CD of the soundtrack is available from earthrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-…ey-collins
Widely regarded as the 20th century’s most important singer of English traditional song, Shirley Collins is someone who was born to invoke the old songs. Alongside her sister Dolly, Shirley stood at the epicentre of the folkmusic revival during the 1960s and 1970s. But in 1980 she developed a disorder of the vocal chords known as dysphonia, which robbed her of her unique singing voice and forced her into early retirement.
Deliberately eschewing a straightforward biopic approach, Rob Curry and Tim Plester ‘Way of the Morris’, is a lyrical response to the life-and-times of a totemic musical figure. Granted intimate access to recording sessions for Shirley’s first album (Lodestar...
Widely regarded as the 20th century’s most important singer of English traditional song, Shirley Collins is someone who was born to invoke the old songs. Alongside her sister Dolly, Shirley stood at the epicentre of the folkmusic revival during the 1960s and 1970s. But in 1980 she developed a disorder of the vocal chords known as dysphonia, which robbed her of her unique singing voice and forced her into early retirement.
Deliberately eschewing a straightforward biopic approach, Rob Curry and Tim Plester ‘Way of the Morris’, is a lyrical response to the life-and-times of a totemic musical figure. Granted intimate access to recording sessions for Shirley’s first album (Lodestar...
- 4/2/2018
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
A rambling, unpretentious music documentary made in the spirit of Alan Lomax and Les Blank, Daniel Cross' I Am the Blues tags along through Mississippi and Louisiana as aged performers swap songs and recollections with each other. Bobby Rush is the closest thing to a household name here, though connoisseurs will be just as happy to see Lazy Lester, Barbara Lynn, and others, many still in fine voice. It's not the kind of production that begs widespread arthouse play. But as the doc tours the country in theatrical bookings, it will be warmly welcomed by lovers of music that hasn't...
- 7/16/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Throughout this trilogy of podcast episodes, I’ve spoken about musical sources and the faraway fruits of their trajectories via music documentaries. In the first installment, Rumble spoke to the varying multi-cultural influences on roots music at the turn of the 20th century, as well as the societal impact of these early underdog American musical pioneers. A very different film, A Story of Sahel Sounds, implied the Alan Lomax story - the man who set out on the great frontier, not to conquer, but to capture the voices at the heart of the country by recording them onto and committing them to history for future generations to expand upon. A Story of Sahel Sounds is a very different type of journey that takes its audience into...
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- 6/10/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Standin’ at the station, don’t know what to say? Starin’ out the window as you’re rollin’ away? Don’t worry — we can always come back to TVLine Mixtape: This Is Us edition.
RelatedThis Is Us @ PaleyFest: The Cast on That Finale Fight and Jack’s Death
In a single season, NBC’s hit drama managed to deliver a wide range of heart-wrenching, gut-punching emotions. We laughed, we cried, we obsessively searched for fan theories. And the show’s music played an integral role in warming our hearts (and exhausting our Kleenex reserves).
If you’re ready to...
RelatedThis Is Us @ PaleyFest: The Cast on That Finale Fight and Jack’s Death
In a single season, NBC’s hit drama managed to deliver a wide range of heart-wrenching, gut-punching emotions. We laughed, we cried, we obsessively searched for fan theories. And the show’s music played an integral role in warming our hearts (and exhausting our Kleenex reserves).
If you’re ready to...
- 4/8/2017
- TVLine.com
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question:
Recently, there has been a lot of chatter regarding projects like “O.J.: Made in America” (an eight-hour documentary that was produced by Espn but premiered at Sundance) and “Lemonade” (which needs no prior introduction, and debuted on HBO), and whether they should be classified as films or television shows.
The conversation has only grown more heated and urgent in the shadow of awards season, which demands that things be lumped into a small number of binary categories: Actor / Actress, Comedy / Drama, Fiction / Documentary, Film / Television. In a world where feature films are premiering on Netflix and miniseries-length documentaries are eligible for Oscars, should...
This week’s question:
Recently, there has been a lot of chatter regarding projects like “O.J.: Made in America” (an eight-hour documentary that was produced by Espn but premiered at Sundance) and “Lemonade” (which needs no prior introduction, and debuted on HBO), and whether they should be classified as films or television shows.
The conversation has only grown more heated and urgent in the shadow of awards season, which demands that things be lumped into a small number of binary categories: Actor / Actress, Comedy / Drama, Fiction / Documentary, Film / Television. In a world where feature films are premiering on Netflix and miniseries-length documentaries are eligible for Oscars, should...
- 12/12/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Coens' tale of a of a once feted folk singer on the slide has brilliant elements that don't quite make a satisfying whole
"How does it feel, to be on your own… Like a complete unknown… ?" Llewyn Davis knows exactly how that feels. Dragging his self-pitying butt around the freezing backstreets of early 1960s Greenwich Village, he is indeed "without a home", a formerly feted singer who made his name as one half of a popular duo until his partner threw himself to an early death, a result, perhaps, of spending too much time with Llewyn. He's an arsehole and everyone tells him so – from fellow folk singer Jean (Carey Mulligan), who is pregnant with his child and wants money for an abortion, to John Goodman's aggressive jazz fiend who callously mocks Davis's former partner's suicide ("You throw yourself of the Brooklyn bridge, traditionally. George Washington bridge? Who does that?...
"How does it feel, to be on your own… Like a complete unknown… ?" Llewyn Davis knows exactly how that feels. Dragging his self-pitying butt around the freezing backstreets of early 1960s Greenwich Village, he is indeed "without a home", a formerly feted singer who made his name as one half of a popular duo until his partner threw himself to an early death, a result, perhaps, of spending too much time with Llewyn. He's an arsehole and everyone tells him so – from fellow folk singer Jean (Carey Mulligan), who is pregnant with his child and wants money for an abortion, to John Goodman's aggressive jazz fiend who callously mocks Davis's former partner's suicide ("You throw yourself of the Brooklyn bridge, traditionally. George Washington bridge? Who does that?...
- 1/26/2014
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The Coen brothers' new film about a 1960s folk singer in Greenwich Village is a reminder of how authenticity became the rod that folk music made for its own back
The new film by the Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis, evokes Greenwich Village at the beginning of the American folk boom. The date is February 1961. Metropolitan young Americans sit in smoky clubs listening reverently to music that they believe is purer, more honest and more heartfelt and therefore more elevating than the commercial mainstream of Sinatra, Buddy Holly and Doris Day. Folk music is still mainly a process of discovery and renewal rather than invention; singers tend to see themselves as curators of tradition. Lines such as: "Here's a song I first heard Leadbelly sing," remain the staple fare of introductions in a form that awaits the great singer-songwriter. Bob Dylan has just arrived in town but is still a...
The new film by the Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis, evokes Greenwich Village at the beginning of the American folk boom. The date is February 1961. Metropolitan young Americans sit in smoky clubs listening reverently to music that they believe is purer, more honest and more heartfelt and therefore more elevating than the commercial mainstream of Sinatra, Buddy Holly and Doris Day. Folk music is still mainly a process of discovery and renewal rather than invention; singers tend to see themselves as curators of tradition. Lines such as: "Here's a song I first heard Leadbelly sing," remain the staple fare of introductions in a form that awaits the great singer-songwriter. Bob Dylan has just arrived in town but is still a...
- 1/18/2014
- by Ian Jack
- The Guardian - Film News
The celebrated musician and record producer has made his mark with a score for the brilliant new Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis. Here he reveals the tricks of his trade
If it hadn't been for the invention of the CD, T Bone Burnett would probably never have got into films. A decade after playing guitar for Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder tour, he sensed digital audio would destroy the industry in which he worked as a musician, songwriter and producer, and decided he needed new avenues of work. The first people he called were Joel and Ethan Coen. That was 1987. Ten years later, the Coens gave him a gig selecting music for The Big Lebowski. They promoted Burnett to music producer on 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou? (the soundtrack went eight-times platinum and won two Grammys) and executive music producer on 2004's The Ladykillers. Then director James Mangold...
If it hadn't been for the invention of the CD, T Bone Burnett would probably never have got into films. A decade after playing guitar for Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder tour, he sensed digital audio would destroy the industry in which he worked as a musician, songwriter and producer, and decided he needed new avenues of work. The first people he called were Joel and Ethan Coen. That was 1987. Ten years later, the Coens gave him a gig selecting music for The Big Lebowski. They promoted Burnett to music producer on 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou? (the soundtrack went eight-times platinum and won two Grammys) and executive music producer on 2004's The Ladykillers. Then director James Mangold...
- 12/27/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Les Blank, whose scintillating portraits of Americana defined a six-decade career, died April 7 at his home in Berkeley, Calif., of complications of bladder cancer. He was 77.
He leaves behind a trove of poetic explorations into the lives of legends and unknowns alike—Lightinin' Hopkins and Leon Russell, as well as gap-toothed women, garlic and tea aficionados and Mardi Gras revelers. Legendary folklorist Alan Lomax mined this territory too, but Blank opened it up further and deeper, beyond the conventions of ethnographic filmmaking to a more resonant kind of poetry. (For ...
He leaves behind a trove of poetic explorations into the lives of legends and unknowns alike—Lightinin' Hopkins and Leon Russell, as well as gap-toothed women, garlic and tea aficionados and Mardi Gras revelers. Legendary folklorist Alan Lomax mined this territory too, but Blank opened it up further and deeper, beyond the conventions of ethnographic filmmaking to a more resonant kind of poetry. (For ...
- 4/8/2013
- by twhite
- International Documentary Association
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "The 78 Project" Tweetable Logline: A journey across America to record today’s musicians on 1930s technology in a quest to connect with the haunting recordings of the past. Elevator Pitch: Inspired by the field recordings of Alan Lomax, The 78 Project is on a mission to record today’s musicians with yesterday’s technology. With just one microphone, an authentic 1930′s Presto direct-to-disc recorder, and one blank lacquer disc, musicians are given the opportunity to make a recording anywhere they choose in a quest to connect with the haunting recordings of the past. The film, music and feelings that arise from the journey result in a magical time travel...
- 10/11/2012
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
House of Earth, thought to have languished for years in a closet, is said to be influenced by Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
A novel by folk singer Woody Guthrie will be published next year, with help from Johnny Depp. House of Earth, which Guthrie finished in 1947 but never released, is being edited by Depp and author Douglas Brinkley.
Depp and Brinkley revealed their plans in a new essay for the New York Times Book Review. House of Earth is Guthrie's only "fully realised" novel, they said, influenced by his experiences in America's Dust Bowl, as well as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents". Despite a slightly esoteric focus on the importance of adobe housing, House of Earth also includes graphic sex,...
A novel by folk singer Woody Guthrie will be published next year, with help from Johnny Depp. House of Earth, which Guthrie finished in 1947 but never released, is being edited by Depp and author Douglas Brinkley.
Depp and Brinkley revealed their plans in a new essay for the New York Times Book Review. House of Earth is Guthrie's only "fully realised" novel, they said, influenced by his experiences in America's Dust Bowl, as well as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents". Despite a slightly esoteric focus on the importance of adobe housing, House of Earth also includes graphic sex,...
- 7/10/2012
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
HollywoodNews.com: Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. Live, announced the Closing Night film and official Us and international selections for the 2012 Festival. Guest Director, Artists in Residence and Conversations with special guests will be announced later this month. The 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen a diverse slate of nearly 200 feature films, short films, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries, along with signature programs such as the Filmmaker Retreat, Poolside Chats, Coffee Talks, music events and more. As previously announced, Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love will be Opening Night, sponsored by Virgin America, and Lorene Scafaria’s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere and Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild were selected for the Galas section.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles and headquartered at L.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles and headquartered at L.
- 5/1/2012
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Folklorist's archive of 17,000 field recordings to begin streaming for free, including music from Britain, Ireland and the Us
One of the biggest collections of field recordings is to go online. The Association for Cultural Equity is to begin streaming 17,000 tracks recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, including music from Britain, Ireland, the Us, the Caribbean and the former Ussr.
Arguably the world's second most famous folklorist (after his father, John), Lomax spent much of the 20th century collecting and promoting folk music. He founded the association in 1983, aiming to "explore and preserve the world's expressive traditions". Even before Lomax's death, in 2002, the organisation had begun digitising his vast archive. According to the New York Times, it comprises more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 ft of film and 3,000 videotapes.
This month, Lomax's inheritors will unveil a website of his recordings, the Global Jukebox, allowing visitors to listen for free. While some of...
One of the biggest collections of field recordings is to go online. The Association for Cultural Equity is to begin streaming 17,000 tracks recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, including music from Britain, Ireland, the Us, the Caribbean and the former Ussr.
Arguably the world's second most famous folklorist (after his father, John), Lomax spent much of the 20th century collecting and promoting folk music. He founded the association in 1983, aiming to "explore and preserve the world's expressive traditions". Even before Lomax's death, in 2002, the organisation had begun digitising his vast archive. According to the New York Times, it comprises more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 ft of film and 3,000 videotapes.
This month, Lomax's inheritors will unveil a website of his recordings, the Global Jukebox, allowing visitors to listen for free. While some of...
- 2/1/2012
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
Happy hardcore, jungle, garage – as 90s pirate radio cranked it out, Mike Finch soaked it up on thousands of cassette tapes. Dan Hancox marvels at a treasure trove that's truly massive
"It was the sound of London when I was doing my GCSEs," says 31-year-old Mike Finch. "I remember in 1994 and '95 you would walk down Oxford Street and the stalls there would all have jungle playing; that Congo Natty ragga sound. It was there in the air anyway, and all you needed was a little radio to tune in." In many ways, Finch is not unusual – a rave everyman who had his life changed for ever by the music of the pirate radio stations. What makes him different is that the legacy he carries with him is also a tangible one: Finch has what must be Britain's largest archive of 90s pirate radio tapes. It's a combination of thousands of home-recorded C90 cassettes,...
"It was the sound of London when I was doing my GCSEs," says 31-year-old Mike Finch. "I remember in 1994 and '95 you would walk down Oxford Street and the stalls there would all have jungle playing; that Congo Natty ragga sound. It was there in the air anyway, and all you needed was a little radio to tune in." In many ways, Finch is not unusual – a rave everyman who had his life changed for ever by the music of the pirate radio stations. What makes him different is that the legacy he carries with him is also a tangible one: Finch has what must be Britain's largest archive of 90s pirate radio tapes. It's a combination of thousands of home-recorded C90 cassettes,...
- 9/8/2011
- by Dan Hancox
- The Guardian - Film News
Something for the dwile flonkers and sword dancers: the BFI has compiled a DVD – Here's a Health to the Barley Mow – celebrating the best of British folk customs and rural games
When you've seen a teenage boy running through a village with a flaming barrel of tar on his head, you might think you've seen everything. But then you indulge yourself further in Here's a Health to the Barley Mow – the BFI's DVD celebrating British folk customs and rural games – and an even stranger Britain comes to light. Here are men swinging fireballs in Aberdeenshire. Here's a boy dressed up as a horse for a Mummers' play in Derby, in sheepskin, with lightbulbs for eyes. Here are the dwile flonkers of Suffolk, led by a man the spitting image of Vic Reeves, who explains, with some glee, what their tradition demands. "A capacity to take beer, I should think – and to be an idiot.
When you've seen a teenage boy running through a village with a flaming barrel of tar on his head, you might think you've seen everything. But then you indulge yourself further in Here's a Health to the Barley Mow – the BFI's DVD celebrating British folk customs and rural games – and an even stranger Britain comes to light. Here are men swinging fireballs in Aberdeenshire. Here's a boy dressed up as a horse for a Mummers' play in Derby, in sheepskin, with lightbulbs for eyes. Here are the dwile flonkers of Suffolk, led by a man the spitting image of Vic Reeves, who explains, with some glee, what their tradition demands. "A capacity to take beer, I should think – and to be an idiot.
- 7/14/2011
- by Jude Rogers
- The Guardian - Film News
I moved to NYC in the early 80's with dreams of making films that would change the world. To prime my path, I was prepared to serve first. There were two internships I wanted. Having grown up listening to Alan Lomax's Southern Journey records, he was one. He didn't hire me. The Super-8 No Wave film thing was taking the city by storm--or at least the East Village. I turned my sights to working for Beth B, one of the key figures in the "Cinema Of Transgression". I got the interview... but not the gig. Although I have had to…...
- 6/30/2011
- Hope for Film
Every year, the Library of Congress chooses 25 sound recordings to preserve in its National Recording Registry. This year's batch is a diverse group of America's best and brightest, including the song that best represents America's favorite pastime: baseball. Yes, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Edward Meeker (not Billy Corgan's version) is now in the Library of Congress. Other additions include "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," by Roy Rogers, Tim Spencer and Bob Nolan a.k.a. The Sons of the Pioneers, Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," Henry Mancini's "The Music From 'Peter Gunn'", "Stand by Your Man" by Tammy Wynette, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica," and Steely Dan's 1977 album "Aja". Guess the library needed to fill their jazz flute quota. The registry also included some less musical recordings including the songs of humpback whales and the Gopac Strategy and Instructional Tapes...
- 4/7/2011
- by Melissa Locker
- ifc.com
The 2011 Grammy Awards were big for the ladies -- country trio Lady Antebellum took home the most awards with five, while Lady Gaga earned three. Eminem had two honors, but Alternative Rock group Arcade Fire won the coveted Album of the Year.
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
- 2/14/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
What do 138 artists, 18 customers and 39 staff members all have in common? Each of them has been interviewed by the camera crew at Amboeba Music for the record store's series What's In My Bag? In a recent episode, Jason Schwartzman (a talented music maker in his own right) gathers up a pile of vinyl records and plops himself down on the floor in the cassette section to go through his discoveries. His mission that day was to find music to play for his soon to be born baby. Practically giddy with excitement about the notion of sharing this music with his family, Schwatzman talks about how he chooses records in manner that's half serious and half Christopher Guest. His bag reveals a diverse range of music, everything from Brian Eno's Apollo soundtrack to Harry Nilsson's playful songs. He adds albums by Rolling Stones and The Who for balance, along...
- 12/15/2010
- by Julie Wolfson
- Tubefilter.com
91 year old Pete Seeger recently told a Rolling Stone journalist that his new album, Tomorrow's Children, is "the most inspiring thing I've ever done." For someone who's career spans almost 70 years, that's saying a lot. Born in New York City in 1919 to a concert violinist and a musicologist, Pete Seeger assisted folk archivist Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Song as a young man. He met Woody Guthrie in 1940 and traveled and performed with him. Guthrie inspired the young musician to start writing his own songs. After being drafted in 1942, Seeger was sent to serve in the Pacific by the U.S. Army. Originally trained as an airplane mechanic, he spent much of his time entertaining his fellow soldiers with music. After the war, he resumed his singing career and helped...
- 8/17/2010
- by Holly Cara Price
- Huffington Post
Well over a year ago I was sent a beautiful two-disc/one-dvd package from an imaginative label based in India called Earthsync. The first release on its roster was an intercultural gaze at the musical cultures affected by the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Maldives and India. Dubbed Laya Project, the 20 songs featured a broad range of native folk styles tempered in the studio, as if Alan Lomax was offered a sizable budget and eighty more years of technology. In that time this album has become a favorite of mine; all songs are richly textured and cinematically treated, mostly avoiding the dangers of the expectable (foreign vocals, big strings, boring beat). The accompanying documentary is simply stunning. The shots are exquisite, the musicians lively and passionate. Plenty of love for music and culture comes across in songs...
- 7/14/2010
- by Derek Beres
- Huffington Post
Alan Lomax, along with his father John Lomax, is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s true unsung heroes. He wasn’t an ace guitar shredder or a multi-octave crooner; he didn’t really have much musical talent at all. Rather, Alan Lomax was a collector. Working for the Library of Congress in the late 1930’s and 1940’s, Lomax archived massive collections of folk music from around the world, most famously through his work recording early American folk and blues musicians like Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly....
- 12/3/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Dan MacDonald, the 21-year-old troubadour who performs as Spitzer Space Telescope, stumbled into his own personal folk revival in an unlikely place: a listening rack at the Barnes & Noble on the campus of Michigan State University. Not exactly Alan Lomax's American backwoods, but it inspired in MacDonald a similar impulse. The Boston University student has put his spin on the vintage folk sound on a recently-release self-titled debut LP that showcases his powerful, expansive vocal range and high-energy, storytelling singing style. Paste recently spoke with MacDonald about his archaic influences, Boston's hootenanny scene and the trouble with labels.
- 9/4/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Like last week’s featured bluesman Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred McDowell didn’t begin his recording career until late in life—he was in his mid-50s before he was discovered by Alan Lomax and swept up by the early-’60s revival of the genre. McDowell spent most of his early life working on farms and later building freight cars in Memphis (which I assume is where he picked up the nickname “Mississippi,” since it would have made no sense to call himself Mississippi Fred when he still lived in Mississippi, where every Fred is by definition a Mississippi Fred). He played on weekends on a more-or-less amateur basis, once saying "I wasn't making money from music... sometimes they'd pay me, and sometimes they wouldn't." Here’s “Goin’ Down To The River”: McDowell came from the northern...
- 8/7/2008
- avclub.com
Filmmaker Robert Mugge has, during the past 25 years, established himself as the cinema's foremost music documentarian, with a career that includes more than 20 features chronicling individual performers (Al Green, Sun Ra, Ruben Blades) and various musical styles (blues, reggae, bluegrass, etc.). His latest effort, "Rhythm 'n' Bayous", receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at the Screening Room in New York, is an entertaining portrait of the music scene in Louisiana and a valuable addition to an ouevre that has become the cinematic equivalent of the work of important ethnomusicologists like Alan Lomax.
The film apparently began as a chronicle of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bus tour through New Orleans and southwestern Louis-iana. But the restless filmmaker abandoned his initial mission and instead went on a far-ranging journey throughout the state, recording more than two dozen roots music performances in nightclubs, concert halls and churches, spotlighting such genres as Cajun, blues, rock, gospel, zydeco and something referred to as "swamp pop." Although some of the performers might be familiar -- Dale Hawkins ("Susie Q"), Frankie Ford -- it's safe to say that the vast majority on display here will be unknown to general audiences. Historical and musical context is provided via comments by a variety of experts and fans.
Mugge's low-budget style --the film was shot in 16mm -- is not particularly distinctive, and on purely cinematic terms, "Rhy-thm" is lacking in more than a few respects. But there's no denying his deep interest and passion for his subject, and the film serves a valuable function in recording for posterity the work of little-known but wonderful musicians and exposing them to audiences not inclined to wander through the back roads of Louisiana. Among the musical highlights are the Easter Rock Church choir's mournful performance of "When the Saints Go Marching In", pianist Henry Butler's powerful rendition of "Deep River" and a number by the Hackenberry Ramblers, the world's longest-lasting music group, who have been performing together since 1933.
RHYTHM 'N' BAYOUS
Cowboy Booking International
Director-producer-editor: Robert Mugge
Co-producer: Tim Healey
Executive producer: : Denise Gutnisky
Director of photography: David Sperling
Color/stereo
Running time -- 107 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film apparently began as a chronicle of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bus tour through New Orleans and southwestern Louis-iana. But the restless filmmaker abandoned his initial mission and instead went on a far-ranging journey throughout the state, recording more than two dozen roots music performances in nightclubs, concert halls and churches, spotlighting such genres as Cajun, blues, rock, gospel, zydeco and something referred to as "swamp pop." Although some of the performers might be familiar -- Dale Hawkins ("Susie Q"), Frankie Ford -- it's safe to say that the vast majority on display here will be unknown to general audiences. Historical and musical context is provided via comments by a variety of experts and fans.
Mugge's low-budget style --the film was shot in 16mm -- is not particularly distinctive, and on purely cinematic terms, "Rhy-thm" is lacking in more than a few respects. But there's no denying his deep interest and passion for his subject, and the film serves a valuable function in recording for posterity the work of little-known but wonderful musicians and exposing them to audiences not inclined to wander through the back roads of Louisiana. Among the musical highlights are the Easter Rock Church choir's mournful performance of "When the Saints Go Marching In", pianist Henry Butler's powerful rendition of "Deep River" and a number by the Hackenberry Ramblers, the world's longest-lasting music group, who have been performing together since 1933.
RHYTHM 'N' BAYOUS
Cowboy Booking International
Director-producer-editor: Robert Mugge
Co-producer: Tim Healey
Executive producer: : Denise Gutnisky
Director of photography: David Sperling
Color/stereo
Running time -- 107 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Filmmaker Robert Mugge has, during the past 25 years, established himself as the cinema's foremost music documentarian, with a career that includes more than 20 features chronicling individual performers (Al Green, Sun Ra, Ruben Blades) and various musical styles (blues, reggae, bluegrass, etc.). His latest effort, "Rhythm 'n' Bayous", receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at the Screening Room in New York, is an entertaining portrait of the music scene in Louisiana and a valuable addition to an ouevre that has become the cinematic equivalent of the work of important ethnomusicologists like Alan Lomax.
The film apparently began as a chronicle of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bus tour through New Orleans and southwestern Louis-iana. But the restless filmmaker abandoned his initial mission and instead went on a far-ranging journey throughout the state, recording more than two dozen roots music performances in nightclubs, concert halls and churches, spotlighting such genres as Cajun, blues, rock, gospel, zydeco and something referred to as "swamp pop." Although some of the performers might be familiar -- Dale Hawkins ("Susie Q"), Frankie Ford -- it's safe to say that the vast majority on display here will be unknown to general audiences. Historical and musical context is provided via comments by a variety of experts and fans.
Mugge's low-budget style --the film was shot in 16mm -- is not particularly distinctive, and on purely cinematic terms, "Rhy-thm" is lacking in more than a few respects. But there's no denying his deep interest and passion for his subject, and the film serves a valuable function in recording for posterity the work of little-known but wonderful musicians and exposing them to audiences not inclined to wander through the back roads of Louisiana. Among the musical highlights are the Easter Rock Church choir's mournful performance of "When the Saints Go Marching In", pianist Henry Butler's powerful rendition of "Deep River" and a number by the Hackenberry Ramblers, the world's longest-lasting music group, who have been performing together since 1933.
RHYTHM 'N' BAYOUS
Cowboy Booking International
Director-producer-editor: Robert Mugge
Co-producer: Tim Healey
Executive producer: : Denise Gutnisky
Director of photography: David Sperling
Color/stereo
Running time -- 107 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film apparently began as a chronicle of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bus tour through New Orleans and southwestern Louis-iana. But the restless filmmaker abandoned his initial mission and instead went on a far-ranging journey throughout the state, recording more than two dozen roots music performances in nightclubs, concert halls and churches, spotlighting such genres as Cajun, blues, rock, gospel, zydeco and something referred to as "swamp pop." Although some of the performers might be familiar -- Dale Hawkins ("Susie Q"), Frankie Ford -- it's safe to say that the vast majority on display here will be unknown to general audiences. Historical and musical context is provided via comments by a variety of experts and fans.
Mugge's low-budget style --the film was shot in 16mm -- is not particularly distinctive, and on purely cinematic terms, "Rhy-thm" is lacking in more than a few respects. But there's no denying his deep interest and passion for his subject, and the film serves a valuable function in recording for posterity the work of little-known but wonderful musicians and exposing them to audiences not inclined to wander through the back roads of Louisiana. Among the musical highlights are the Easter Rock Church choir's mournful performance of "When the Saints Go Marching In", pianist Henry Butler's powerful rendition of "Deep River" and a number by the Hackenberry Ramblers, the world's longest-lasting music group, who have been performing together since 1933.
RHYTHM 'N' BAYOUS
Cowboy Booking International
Director-producer-editor: Robert Mugge
Co-producer: Tim Healey
Executive producer: : Denise Gutnisky
Director of photography: David Sperling
Color/stereo
Running time -- 107 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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