Taj Mahal

1968년 발매된 데뷔 앨범 「뮤직 프롬 빅 핑크 Music from Big Pink」부터 1976년 고별 공연 실황 음반인 「더 라스트 왈츠 The Last Waltz」에 이르기까지, 캐나다 출신의 ‘더 밴드’는 컨트리 록을 대표하는 최고의 밴드였다. 밥 딜런의 백 밴드로 이미 명성을 얻었던 이들은 에릭 클랩튼이 듣고 충격을 받아 자신의 밴드 ‘크림’을 해산했다는 이야기가 전해지는 데뷔 앨범을 통해 시작부터 확고한 위치를 갖게 됐다. 하지만 멤버들이 온갖 구설에 오르내리며 결국 해산을 결정했고, 이들의 마지막 공연은 마틴 스코세이지에 의해 다큐멘터리로 제작된다. 시대를 풍미한 더 밴드의 성공과 그들의 내리막이 리더 로비 로버트슨의 회고와 함께 펼쳐진다.

혜성처럼 나타나 주옥같은 명곡을 남기고 떠난 뮤지션 로버트 존슨. 사람들은 그의 갑작스러운 죽음을 두고 이렇게 말한다. 그는 블루스를 위해 악마와 거래했던 것이라고!

미국의 음악 역사 중 지금까지도 잘 알려지지 않은 부분인 ‘인디언 뮤지션의 영향력’에 대한 중요하고 심층적인 이야기를 담은 작품이다. 찰리 패튼, 링크 레이, 지미 핸드릭스, 버피 세인트 마리 등 뛰어난 인디언 뮤지션들을 통해 이들이 미국 음악에 끼친 영향을 보여주며, 마틴 스콜세지, 퀸시 존스, 잭슨 브라운 등 여러 뮤지션들의 흥미로운 인터뷰도 담았다. (2017년 제13회 제천국제음악영화제)

Shake ‘Em On Down is a one-hour documentary film which aims to tell the story of Fred McDowell, who was first recorded by Alan Lomax in 1959, traveled to Europe with the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s, mentored Bonnie Raitt, and served as the cornerstone of the unique and enduring North Mississippi- style of blues music.

Jack White and T Bone Burnett invite today’s greatest artists to test their skills against the long-lost machine that recorded their musical idols and forebears. The producers have, over a decade rebuilt, a 1920s recording system, timed by a weight-driven system of clockwork gears. Stripped of the comforts and security of modern technology, Nas, Elton John, Alabama Shakes, Steve Martin Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, are among the artists who have three minutes and one chance to get their music etched into a revolving wax disc, before the weight hits the floor. The results are career defining performances and the very definition of "Lighting In A Bottle".

Austin City Limits (ACL) heads to Nashville for a special broadcast featuring performance highlights from this year’s Americana Honors & Awards. ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014 premieres this Saturday, November 22, on PBS stations across the United States and includes performances from Robert Plant and Ry Cooder, among many others. The show was recorded live at the Americana Music Association's 13th Annual Honors & Awards ceremony at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium in September.

Loving, music-filled tribute to Chris Strachwitz, guiding force behind legendary roots music label Arhoolie Records. With Ry Cooder, Clifton Chenier, Richard Thompson, Flaco Jiménez and a new generation of roots musicians.

All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman captures a once-in-a-lifetime performance, honoring one of the most acclaimed and beloved icons in rock and roll history. A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and successful solo artist in his own right, Allman possesses a voice that has resonated through four decades.

Captured across two nights at Madison Square Garden, the Crossroads Guitar Festival offers a variety of legendary guitarists performing a mix of sultry blues, classic rock and country jams.

Buffy Sainte-Marie is best known for her protest songs (Universal Soldier) and her love songs (Up Where We Belong). This one-hour documentary chronicles her remarkable career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as an Aboriginal-rights advocate, digital artist and Oscar-winning songwriter.

A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.

Track listing : 1 - Intro (1min05) 2 - TAJ MAHAL : Riverside (1min40) 3 - TAJ MAHAL : Sweet Mama Genise (1min16) 4 - TAJ MAHAL : Oh Susannah (3min30) 5 - JOHNNY WINTER : Johnny B. Goode (5min35) 6 - JOHNNY WINTER feat. EDGAR WINTER : Tell The Truth (5min23) 7 - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY : Soapstone Mountain (5min10) 8 - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY : White Bird (4min55) 9 - SANTANA : Medley (3min52) 10 - SANTANA : Soul Sacrifice (7min53)

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.

A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station.

A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station.

화물 수송용 경비행기 조종사인 퀸(해리슨 포드)과 뉴욕의 잡지사 "대즐"의 부편집장인 로빈(앤 헤이치)은 퀸의 비행기를 타고 6박 7일의 여행을 떠난다. 갑자기 잡지의 표지 사진을 받기 위해 타히티로 가야했던 로빈이 또한번 퀸의 도움을 받는다. 타히티로 가던 중 악천후로 비행기가 마카티와 타히티 중간 지점의 무인도에 불시착한다. 게다가 해적과 만나 죽을 고비를 넘기고, 퀸은 2차 대전 당시 추락한 일본군 비행기 잔해를 발견하고 연료통을 분리해 자신의 경비행기에 부착해 탈출을 시도하는데...

Small-time drug dealer Al Dean is out for the ultimate score. But when Al and his friends adopt a pig, their laid-back summer plans get baked. Set in the '70s, Scrapple is a Colorado ski-town story of drugs, love, and a pig named Scrapple.

Also known as Georgia Blues, this is a biopic of influential bluesman Blind Willie McTell.

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.

A 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The film is comprised of two concerts on a circus stage and included such acts as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards.

This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.

Interracial love story set in Detroit.

서기 2691년, 악당 노몰로스는 장차 인류의 미래를 구하게 될 빌과 테드를 처치하기 위해 가짜 빌과 테드 로보트를 만들어 1991년으로 보낸다. 한편, 1991년의 진짜 빌과 테드는 상금 2만천달러를 얻기 위해 배틀 오브 어밴드 콘테스트에 참가할 준비를 하고 있다. 드디어 가짜 빌과 테드 로보트가 캘리포니아에 도착, 빌과 테드의 생활을 모두 망쳐놓고 죽음으로 몰아넣는다. 저승에 떨어진 빌과 테드는 지옥을 구경하다가, 저승사자 그림 리케르와 리페르와의 내기에서 이겨 우주 최고의 과학자와 함께 돌아와 착한 로버트를 만든다. 그리고 콘테스트 장소에서 가짜들과 미래에서 날아온 노몰로스를 상대로 싸워 승리하는데...

Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad. This touching story captures all the drama of a perilous flight to freedom. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

Live! February 19th, 1987. Palomino Club, North Hollywood, California.

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.

Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.

Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930's, this 15 year-olds problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.

Fighting for Our Lives is a 1975 documentary film produced and directed by Glen Pearcy. The film documents the striking of California grape workers from Coachella to Fresno as they negotiate for a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract in 1973. The film also depicts their non-violent struggle against police brutality on the picket lines. It was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.

The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.

Mr. Handy's Blues is the never before told story of W.C. Handy, known worldwide as The Father of the Blues. The film features performances of Handy's songs by current artists including Taj Mahal, Bobby Rush and Gary Nichols.