Wednesday November 16th 2011, 5:06 pm
Movie Lounge: The Rolling Stones Live at the Marquee Club
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For this edition of Movie Lounge, we have The Rolling Stones’ full 37-minute set from the Marquee Club in London on March 26, 1971. Watch the band perform “Live With Me”, “Dead Flowers”, “I Got The Blues”, “Let It Rock”, “Midnight Rambler”, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Bitch” and “Brown Sugar” below. Enjoy!

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Friday July 08th 2011, 7:42 am
Movie Lounge: Waylon Jennings and Friends
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Here is one of the episodes of the 8-episode television special, Waylon Jennings and Friends. This particular segment features Waylon leading a gang of some of the most talented country music singers and songwriters of all time in a loving tribute to Sue Brewer, the country music patron who used to host guitar pulls at her house, aka the”Boar’s Nest” (read more about Sue here).

Watch what Waylon calls “an organized riot”, with the musicians sitting around, sharing stories (like the time Willie Nelson frenchkissed Faron Young) and performing hit after hit including: Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass”, Mack Vickery’s “Honky Tonk Wine”, Willie Nelson’s “I Gotta Get Drunk”,  Roger Miller’s “In The Summertime”, Faron Young and Willie Nelson’s “Hello Walls”, Buck Trent’s “Banjo Buck”, Little Jimmy Dickens’  “Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)”, Harlan Howard’s “Busted”, Mickey Newbury’s “Sweet Memories”, Merle Kilgore’s “She Went a Little Bit Farther”, Hank WIlliams, Jr.’s “All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down”, Mac Wiseman’s “Jimmy Brown The Newsboy” and Waylon Jennings’ “Nashville Bum”. The amount of talent in that one room is absolutely astonishing and it is seriously NOT TO BE MISSED.




Friday June 24th 2011, 11:31 am
Movie Lounge: A short film on Frank Fairfield
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We mentioned this movie earlier this month and now its been posted online for your viewing pleasure! Here’s a short, 12-minute film on the music of Frank Fairfield directed by Austin Wilson and produced by Greg Vandy.  Frank is currently back in Los Angles after touring through Europe in support of his latest album, Out On The Open West, and will be playing a gig at Origami Music in Echo Park on Sunday. Enjoy!




Monday June 20th 2011, 4:43 am
Movie Lounge: Van Morrison’s Under Review 1964 to 1974
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Van Morrison

Van Morrison: Under Review 1964-1974 is a 2 hour documentary film which covers the musician’s albums during that period, from the formation of Them through to his solo records Astral Weeks, Moondance, St. Dominic’s Preview, Tupelo Honey, Veedon Fleece and It’s Too Late To Stop Now. There’s loads of great early film footage and interview snippets in there that are definitely worth a watch.  Enjoy!

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Monday May 16th 2011, 5:24 pm
Movie Lounge: Bill Monroe’s Father of Bluegrass Music
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Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music is a great documentary from 1993 about the life of Monroe and his music. There’s some incredible live footage of Monroe in this documentary including several clips that show his talents as an old time mountain dancer. You have not lived until you see Bill Monroe dancing up a storm on a New York city subway (around the 18:00 minute mark)! The film also features interviews about Monroe with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Jerry Garcia, Marty Stuart, and former Bluegrass Boys Del McCoury and Peter Rowan. Enjoy the film below it it’s entirety.

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Monday April 18th 2011, 6:04 am
Movie Lounge: To Hear Your Banjo Play
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Folk music documentary from 1947 written by Alan Lomax and hosted by Pete Seeger that featured clips of Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Baldwin Hawes, Texas Gladden and more. The 16-minute film is posted it it’s entirety below. Enjoy!

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Wednesday April 13th 2011, 7:00 am
Movie Lounge: Bluegrass Country Soul
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Bluegrass Country Soul is a 1972 documentary about the bluegrass festival that took place in the summer of 1971 in Springs Camp, North Carolina. It shows the evolution of bluegrass at the time with performances by the more traditional acts; Jimmy Martin, The Osbourne Brothers, Ralph Stanley (with the young duo of Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs backing him up), Roy Acuff and Mac Wiseman alongside the upcoming “new-grass bands” like the Earl Scruggs Review, the Country Gentlemen, JD Crowe, and the Bluegrass Alliance (which would later become the New Grass Revival). The film is posted in its entirety below. Enjoy!

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Monday March 07th 2011, 8:58 am
Movie Lounge: Beachwood Sparks on Spanish TV
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Beachwood Sparks performing a nearly 27-minute set live on Spanish tv in 2000. The set list includes “The Calming Seas”, “Canyon Ride”, “Silver Morning After”, “Desert Skies”, “Sister Rose”, “Old Sea Miner” and The Everly Brothers’s “Wake Up Little Susie”.  Thanks to The Calming Seas for posting. The video player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A185F1458DF7A27C




Tuesday February 08th 2011, 8:42 am
Movie Lounge: Fleetwood Mac’s Going Home
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Going Home is a 1993 documentary about Fleetwood Mac that features interviews with all of the members plus rare footage of the band from the 1970s,  including home movies, rehearsing and recording in the studio, Grammy Awards ceremonies and live performances of “Over My Head”, “Landslide”, “I’m so Afraid”, “Dreams”, “Don’t Stop” & “Never Going Back Again”. A must see for Fleetwood Mac fans. The video player is set up like a playlist, so when the first clip stops, the next clip will automatically start. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D139EDACBE56E436




Friday January 21st 2011, 10:28 am
Movie Lounge: Hippie Masala
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Following on the hippie theme that we seem to have going this week, here’s the 2006 Swiss documentary Hippie Masala, directed by filmmaker Ulrich Grossenbacher and anthropologist Damaris Lüthi, that looks at the “aging flower children who, after fleeing Western civilization, found a new home in India.” In the film’s own words: “In the 1960s and 1970s thousands of hippies journeyed East in the search for enlightenment, free drugs or a ‘pure’ life. Indian peasants assumed that a severe drought in the West was the reason for their migration. India’s holy men saw it, more accurately, as a search for spirituality. Most moved back to their home countries after a few months or years. Some stayed for good.” You can watch the preview below for the 96-minute documentary, and then click on “Watch the entire film for free” link to do just that. Enjoy (and just imagine what would have happened if the Beatles never returned…).