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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 35 min.) ; 525982266 bytes |
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Part two of The Blues, under the guiding hand of film director Wim Wenders, (Buena Vista Social Club; Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas) artists - Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir - is a film that is part history and part personal pilgrimage. The program tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence, rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett. Says Wenders: "These songs meant the world to me. I felt there was more truth in them than in any book I had read about America, or in any movie I had ever seen. I've tried to describe, more like a poem than in a 'documentary,' what moved me so much in their songs and voices."The Blues: A Musical Journey captures the essence of blues music and delves into its global influence - from its roots in Africa to its inspirational role in today's music.Through a series of impressionistic and iconoclastic programs, each director explores the music through their own personal connections. Simply put, it is the journey from Robert Johnson's Delta blues "Love in Vain," to John Coltrane's transcendental anthem, "A Love Supreme." Driven by the beat of performances by famous players from every kind of music the blues have inspired - hip-hop, rhythm and blues, soul, country and rock 'n' roll - this seven-part series takes us on a journey as soulful and ebullient as the music itself. Martin Scorsese personally introduces each of the seven episodes |
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Broadcast 2013-07-21 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Scorsese, Martin.
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Blues (Music)
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Music -- Performance.
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Music appreciation.
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Voyages and travels.
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Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Streaming video
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Burnett, Charles, director
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Hicks, Tommy Redmond, cast
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Lee Jr., Nathaniel, cast
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Lumbly, Carl, cast
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