American epic
DVD - 2017
The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning America are captured on record for the first time, inventing new instruments and new cultural identities. The American epic sessions: Jack White and T Bone Burnett produce an epic recording session using the only working 1920s recording device in existence in this tribute to the artists celebrated in the American epic documentaries.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary television programs
Filmed performances
Live sound recordings
Television mini-series
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Arlington, Virginia] :
PBS Distribution
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Widescreen
- Item Description
- "PBS"--Container.
Originally broadcast on television in 2017. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 310 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen ; uncompressed theatrical mono mix.
- Production Credits
- Editing, Dan Gitlin [and 3 others] ; original music, Duke Erikson and Bernard MacMahon ; cinematography, Vern Moen.
- ISBN
- 9781627894715
- disc 1. The big bang. The Carter Family ; Field recordings ; The Bristol sessions ; The Carter Family legacy ; Beale Street ; The Memphis Jug Band ; A feeling of the past
- Blood and soil. Elder Burch ; The triumph church ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Music from the coal mines ; Charley Patton and Dockery Farms ; Patton's thumbprint
- Out of the many, the one. The deepest roots of American music ; Joseph Kekuku and the steel guitar ; The first Tejano superstar [Lydia Mendoza] ; A musical jambalaya ; Mississippi John Hurt ; Lost and found ; The sounds of earth.
- disc 2. The American epic sessions. Matrimonial intentions (Jack White) ; If the river was whiskey (Frank Fairfield) ; On the road again (Nas) ; Killer diller (Alabama Shakes) ; El cascabel (Los Lobos) ; Two fingers of whiskey (Elton John) ; Jubilee (Ashley Monroe and the Americans) ; High water everywhere (Taj Mahal) ; St. Louis blues (Pokey LaFarge) ; The cuckoo (Steve Martin & Edie Brickell) ; Candy man (Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton) ; Tomi tomi (the Hawaiians) ; Tain't nobody's business (Bettye LaVette) ; Just a closer walk with thee (the Avett Brothers) ; Mal hombre (Ana Gabriel) ; Fourteen rivers fourteen floods (Beck) ; One hour mama (Rhiannon Giddens) ; Allons à Lafayette (Lost Bayou Ramblers) ; Stealin' stealin' (Raphael Saadiq) ; the final session (Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard) / writers, Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson.