Really looking forward to the Coen Brothers new movie “Inside Llewyn Davis” about the folk music scene centered around MacDougal and Bleecker streets in Greenwich Village, “the echoes of which helped define the American acoustic music over the following decades,” as the attached LA Times article says. As I understand it, the movie focuses on some of the key characters that created the thriving 60s Greenwich Village folk music scene—Dave Van Ronk, the New Lost City Ramblers, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul & Mary and others. I have high hopes for this movie since I think the Coen Brothers hit it out of the park with “O Brother Where Art Thou.” As was the case with that movie, which featured a magnificent soundtrack by T Bone Burnett, the soundtrack for Inside Llewyn Davis will also be done by the great T Bone Burnett. (The soundtrack just came out in advance of the film release on December 6th, but I have yet to check it out.) I was one of the young “folkies” who got to ride on the ripples that spread out from the Greenwich music scene—albeit just a few years later. I knew some of the players in the story, and am really interested to see how the Coen brothers handle the topic of the huge influence that Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and other great blues pioneers had on Van Ronk, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul & Mary--and overall on the creative upsurge of deeply rooted, powerful folk music that burst forth in the 60s. Can’t wait to see this film! latimes/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-inside-llewyn-davis,0,1832093.story#axzz2kMIbTd5W
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:22:44 +0000
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