American Roots Music [DVD]
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Actor: Various ArtistsDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, Compilation, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
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Movie Review: AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC - DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
THIS IS A VERY COMPREHENSIVE, VERY AUTHORITATIVE , AND VERY HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY OF AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC. THIS DOCUMENTARY CONTAINS A WEALTH OF AMERICAN MUSIC HISTORY AND THE PIONEERING ARTISTS WHO LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN MUSIC!!! THIS IS A 4 HOUR, 4 EPISODE 2 DISC DOCUMENTARY WITH HISTORICAL PARTIAL PERFORMANCES, AND/OR COMMENTARY ON SUCH ARTISTS AS: JIMMIE RODGERS (THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC), THE CARTER FAMILY (THE FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC), MUDDY WATERS (A LEGENDARY BLUESMAN), B.B.KING (A LIVING LEGEND OF THE BLUES), BOB WILLS (KING OF WESTERN SWING), HANK WILLIAMS (KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC), BILL MONROE (A LEGENDARY BLUEGRASS MUSICAN), EARL SCRUGGS (A LEGENDARY BLUEGRASS MUSICIAN), MAHALIA JACKSON (A SOUL MUSIC QUEEN), CHIFTON CHENIER (THE KING OF ZYDECO), WOODY GUTHRIE (A FOLK MUSIC PIONEER), AND MANY, MANY MORE!!!!
YOU GET COMMENTARIES BY MARTY STUART, GILLIAN WELCH (OF OF THE O BROTHER ART THOU MOVIE), RICKY SCAGGS, RUFUS THOMAS, BONNIE RAITT, MAVIS STAPLES, DOYLE LAWSON, RAPLH STANLEY, ARLO GUTHRIE, KEITH RICHARDS, SAM PHILLIPS, MERLE HAGGARD, BENICE JOHNSON, ROBERT MIRABAL AND MANY OTHERS.
EPISODE 1:
1.THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS (THESE WERE AFRICAN AMERICAN SINGERS, WHO WERE IN COLLEGE, AND THEY SUNG SPIRITAL MUSIC, TO SUPPORT THEIR COLLEGE, THEY EVEN TRAVELED ACROSS THE COUNTRY PUTTING ON SHOWS THAT WERE WELL RECEIVED BY BOTH BLACK AND WHITE AUDIENCES. THEY STARTED AROUND THE 1870' BEFORE THERE WAS RECORDED MUSIC).
1. RECORDED MUSIC: A DOUMENTARY OF THE BEGINNING OF RECORDED MUSIC.
2. THE BRISTOL SESSIONS: FEATURES JIMMIE RODGERS (YOU GET A GREAT ALMOST COMPLETE PERFORMANCE OF JIMMIE RODGERS SINGING "WAITING ON A TRAIN". AND YOU GET HISTORY ON THE CARTER FAMILY. THE BRISTOL SESSIONS WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SESSIONS TO RECORD MUSIC ON RECORD, AND JIMMY RODGERS AND THE CARTER FAMILY WERE RECORDED AT THESE BRISTOL SESSIONS.
3. DELTA BLUES: FEATURES A HISTORY AND PARTIAL PERFORMANCES BY LEGENDARY MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES MUSICIANS. YOU GET A GOOD PARTIAL PERFORMANCE OF SON HOUSE (A LENGENDAR DELTA BLUESMAN) AND OTHERS.
4. THE GRAND OLE OPRY
5. GOSPEL IS BORN( THE STORY OF THOMAS DORSEY - THE FATHER OF BLACK GOSPEL MUSIC).
EPISODE 2:
6. COWBOY MUSIC AND WESTERN SWING
7. LEAD BELLY AND LOMAX
8. WOODY GUTHRIE
9.BLUEGRASS
10. HONKY TONK MUSIC
11. THE BLUES AND RADIO
NOW, YOU GET BONUS FULL LENGTH PERFORMANCES BY BOB WILLS, EARL SCRUGGS, AND DOC WATSON.
EPISODE 3:
12. CHIGAGO BLUES
13. B.B KING
14. GOLDEN AGE OF GOSPEL
15. THE WEAVERS
16. THE FOLK REVIVAL
17. NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL
EPISODE 4:
18. CAJUN MUSIC
19. ZYDECO MUSIC
20. TEJANO MUSIC
21. NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC
22. NAKAI AND MIRABEL (NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC).
23. EVOLUTION OF ROOTS MUSIC.
THEN YOU GET FULL LENGTH BONUS PERFORMANCES BY SISTER ROSETTA THARPE, STEVE RILEY AND THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS (CAJUN), AND VALERIO LONGORIA.
OVERALL, THIS IS A GREAT HISTORICAL DOCUMENARY OF AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC. IT'S DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE THE ENTIRE SERIES IN DETAIL, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS SUCH A WEALTH OF INFORMATION.
IT YOU ARE EXPECTING A LOT OF FULL LENGTH PERMANCES YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED, BUT IF YOU LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC HISTORY, THEN YOU'LL ENJOY THIS ONE, AND IN THAT CONTEXT, I DO RECOMMEND THIS ONE.
Summary of American Roots Music [DVD]
American Roots Music is a four-part documentary. This landmark television program explores the development of uniquely American music genres during the 20th century. Each 1-hour episode features seminal historic footage and musical performances by the pioneers of American music and traces the cultural evolution that shaped and influenced our rich tapestry of music. Masters in the fields of Folk, Country, Blues, Gospel, Western Swing, Bluegrass, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano and Native American music are celebrated. You will see rare footage and hear music from artists ranging from the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Son House, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jimenez, R. Carlos Nakai, Bob Dylan and many more. The astonishing performance footage is placed in context by colorful interviews with some of the artists themselves, their peers, family and friends.O Brother, wherever thou art, behold what thou and thy kin hath wrought. With the documentary American Roots Music and its spinoffs (including a book and CD collection), producers Jim Brown and Sam Pollard clearly were influenced by the popularity of the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its music. You won't be seeing Eminem and Mariah Carey here, or even Duke Ellington and Ray Charles, but rather a comprehensive, if flawed, four-part documentary examining the various cultural and ethnic folk traditions that blended together to create the rich, multi- flavored brew that is American music.
Narrated by Kris Kristofferson, each of the four parts is a little less than an hour long. Episode One offers a brief overview before detailing topics like the spread of music via Victrolas and radio, the early days of country music and the Grand Ole Opry, the rise of black gospel music, and seminal blues musicians like Son House, Mamie Smith, and Robert Johnson. Episode Two deals with western music (Gene Autry, Bob Wills), Bill Monroe and bluegrass, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, and more blues (Leadbelly, Sonny Boy Williamson, B.B. King). Episode Three, perhaps the best of the lot, takes on urban blues (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf), black spirituals, and the early '60s folk boom, while Episode Four studies Cajun, zydeco and Tex-Mex styles, along with Native American music and more.
The style is standard documentary, with interviews and photos interspersed with new and old live footage. The producers tout the presence of "rare performances" by Guthrie, Waters, Monroe, Clifton Chenier, and many others, and they're fascinating. But for whatever reason (lack of time or maybe lack of faith in viewers' attention spans) none is presented in its entirety. It's a drawback that is remedied to some extent by the addition of six bonus clips (three on each DVD) that are complete, including wonderful vintage films of Western Swing master Bob Wills and the remarkable gospel singer/guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. --Sam Graham
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