Black Moses, Willy Wonka and Mel Stuart
I will confess: I do like reading obituaries. Not out of morbid curiosity but I just find them as little biographies that often contain fascinating nuggets of information. This week, among the...
View ArticleThe ‘Mats’ Movie And Other Cool Music Documentaries
The Replacements were, and probably always will be, one of those important bands in my musical pantheon. And I am not the only one. Earlier this week, I wrote about the just released Treatment Bound, a...
View ArticleDVD Review: Bob Dylan And The Band: Down In The Flood – Associations and...
The story about Bob Dylan and the Band is a fascinating one with many compelling chapters. The folk king Dylan going electric. A longtime backing band coming into their own known simply as The Band....
View Article“The History of Future Folk”– not a freak folk documentary
Opening in L.A. this week is the quirky comedy, The History of Future Folk. All I really know about this low-budget movie is its amusing trailer which uses the tag line: “probably the only alien folk...
View ArticleCharles Bradley’s Doc – Soul Of America – Coming Out Soon
Charles Bradley is one of those late-blooming old-school soul singers – along with the likes of with Lee Fields, Bettye LaVette and Sharon Jones – who are happily achieving some career success now....
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