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Featured Mixtape From The Archive
Calendar of Events
Los Angeles, CA
Sept 4
AA Bondy at FYF Fest- Los Angeles State Historic Park
Sept 6
Family of the Year/Hi Ho Silver Oh- Bootleg Theatre
Sept 10
The Watson Twins- Bootleg Theatre
Sept 14
Tallest Man On Earth/ S. Carey- Henry Fonda Theatre
Sept 16
AA Bondy- Detroit Bar
Sept 17
Parson Red Heads- Spaceland
Sept 25
Aquarium Drunkard's Waved Out Fest- The Echoplex
Sept 29
The Felice Brothers- The Echo
Sept 30
Justin Townes Earle/Jessica Lea Mayfield- Gene Autry Museum
Simon and Garfunkel on The Kraft Music Hall TV program in 1968. They perform “A Poem On The Underground Wall,” “For Emily Whenever I May Find Her,” “Overs,” “Anji,” “Patterns,” “The Sounds Of Silence” and “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy).” On “Anji”, Simon is accompanied by his brother Ed on guitar and on “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy),” they are joined by Nancy Wilson and Victor Borge. It runs about twenty minutes total. Originally broadcast on January 3, 1968. The Youtube player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. Enjoy!
Rare video from a 1984 TV special that Bobby Bare hosted about songwriting. He interviews Johnny Cash in the first two clips and Carl Perkins appears in the third clip. The Youtube player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. Enjoy!
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 is Murray Lerner’s 2007 documentary covering three years of Dylan’s appearances at the Rhode Island festival. The film features nearly 20 Dylan songs and clocks in at 83 minutes. From Amazon: “Few performances in history are as legendary – or as controversial – as Bob Dylan’s 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. In a single, galvanizing instant, Dylan plugged an entire generation in, forever changing not only the way the music was made, but the way it was heard. By putting you in the audience for Dylan’s Newport performances from 1963 through that pivotal set in 1965, Academy Award-winning director Murray Lerner’s The Other Side Of The Mirror captures Dylan’s metamorphosis from the folk family’s best-kept secret to rock’s fiercely confrontational poet who would electrify an entire nation and become the voice of his generation.” The Youtube player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. Enjoy!
Here’s a half-hour documentary produced for MTV in 1986. Notes on the doc from the director, Richard Schenkman: “Tom Petty’s hand had finally healed (after he’d broken it in a fit of frustrated pique caused by his inability to complete the long-gestating “Southern Accents” album) and the band was anxious to play. We captured the Heartbreaker’s very first live show in years – an impromptu concert on the roof of the Don Ce Sar hotel in St. Petersburg (a rather obvious tribute to the Beatles’ “Let It Be”). But first — we journeyed to Tom’s hometown of Gainesville, FL and retraced the band’s early days. Charles M. Young of Rolling Stone conducted a far-reaching interview with Tom, and for good measure we visited the set of one of the new “Alice In Wonderland” – themed music videos produced for the record’s release. The show became the template for the later “Rockumentary” series, and features some guest-editing by Steven Soderbergh!” You can watch the documentary below in it’s entirety. Enjoy!
The Wizard of Waukesha is the 1979 documentary about the legendary guitarist and inventor Les Paul. It features interviews with Mike Bloomfield, Rick Derringer and more. The Youtube player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. If it doesn’t start in the correct order for you (for some reason, it keeps switching around), you can watch the whole thing on youtube by clicking here. Enjoy!
The Wild World of Hasil Adkins is Julien Nitzberg’s 1993 short documentary about the legendary Boone County, West Virginia psychobilly musician Hasil Adkins. The filming takes place in Adkin’s backyard, shack and at various concerts. The Youtube player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. Enjoy!
Festival In The Forest is Alexander Klein’s 2008 film that documents the Big Sur, California festival of the same name. The film, which was edited by one of When You Awake’s very own contributing photographers, Andrew White, features performances by Entrance Band, Fool’s Gold, The Parson Redheads, Port O’Brien, Beach House, Sleepy Sun, the Silver Jews and many more. You can watch the film in its entirety below. Enjoy!
Things Can Get Out Of Hand is Those Darlins’ brand new 13 minute documentary. The flick, which was filmed at this year’s SXSW down in Austin, Texas, features interviews with the band, behind the scene antics and live footage from their SXSW shows. You can watch it in its entirety below. The band, which recently had to cancel a string of Australian tour dates after Nikki Darlin broke both of the bones in her left forearm (click here to donate to help pay her medical bills), is currently gearing up for a US tour starting mid-June. You can check out their complete tour dates after the jump.
On December 3, 1965, Bob Dylan met with the press to promote his 5 upcoming Bay Area shows. The press conference was filmed and aired later that evening on KQED. It’s Dylan’s only full length press conference ever televised in it’s entirety. For more information about the conference, including who was there (The Band’s Robbie Robertson and concert promoter Bill Graham among others), click here. The Youtube player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start.
Van Morrison granted a rare interview to the CBS Sunday Morning News in 2009 in support of the release of his record Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl. In the interview, he talks about how Leadbelly, Charles Mingus and Ray Charles influenced his music, the songwriting process for “Moondance” and being an introvert in an extroverted business. The Youtube player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. Skip to the 1:28 mark for the beginning of the piece.
