Bluegrass Country Soul
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Movie Reviews of Bluegrass Country Soul
Movie Review: Time Capsule
Summary: 5 Stars
This is sort of part-documentary, part straight-up concert footage. It shows the musicians both rehearsing and onstage, and also features the crowds that came out to the 1971 Bluegrass Festival, as well as the campgrounds where they stayed. From the clothing & hairstyles to the station wagons & tourbuses, you really get a sense of the time and place of the festival when you watch this DVD.Movie Review: A must-have for bluegrass lovers
Summary: 5 Stars
This ranks with the all-time best concert movies--"Woodstock," "The Last Waltz," and "Stop Making Sense." The fact that it's a bluegrass film is a plus for fans of the genre.
Almost any chapter of the dvd is worth the entire price, but the Earl Scruggs banjo finale is breathtaking.
A beautiful piece of work, lovingly crafted and a one-of-a-kind experience.
Movie Review: Nice Capture of a 70's Bluegrass Festival
Summary: 5 Stars
A great video piece for traditional bluegrass lovers. Just the 1 second shot of the guy in the cowboy hat hollering out a cat call during JD Crowe's train 45 was worth the purchase price for me. Good music and interviews with some real deal festival characters make this a fun little slice of life documentary.Movie Review: Great DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
If you love old time bluegrass....you have to buy this DVD. The quality is great and it is so much fun. Sit back drink a "cold one" and enjoy! This is the best blugrass video I've seen in a long time and it has some of the greatest pickers playing some of the greatest music.Movie Review: Robert Kaylor's revenge
Summary: 4 Stars
This 1971 DVD is an interesting historical document. It should be an interesting musical document too, and to a certain extent it is. Unfortunately, the producers seem unable to believe in their own product; that is, believe that seeing and hearing Bluegrass musicians could be enough to hold anyone's interest unaided. Despite the presence of some classic artists and classic line-ups, the camera is constantly cutting away. Performances are interrupted by voice-overs, or simply cut short.
The prize example is the opening number, which features Don Stover, one of the most interesting banjoists of that era, whom I never had the chance to see live. Of its 4'10", all but 1'04" shows (among other things) a barn, a dog, a horse, a session playing something different, people arriving, or people simply wandering about. The next number, from Ralph Stanley with both Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs, is interrupted by a voice-over... and so on throughout the music.
That said, there's still a great deal to enjoy of Bluegrass both old and (then) new: Chubby Wise, Del McCoury, The Country Gentlemen, a very young Tony Rice on his last gig with The Bluegrass Alliance, the Osborne Brothers (too bad about the drums)... even the Japanese group Bluegrass 45 are interestingly bad. The extras include a second version with some very informative commentary.
But the unexpected highlight of the show for me was a snippet of a quartet, labelled simply "Nighttime Jam Session". It was so dead-centre of what good Bluegrass is about that for a couple of seconds I thought it was Ralph Stanley. The harmony sent shivers down my back.
If you should chance to read this, you unidentified jammers, whoever you were, my very best wishes to you.