Oct 01 2010
Down from the Mountain Streaming
| Down from the Mountain Streaming.
Movie Title: Down from the Mountain Down from the Mountain is available for streaming or downloading. |
This movie, allotment stage reveal and fragment local color with a great bit of nostalgia thrown in, is breathtaking, riveting, challenging, transcendent. It begins with a night tour of Nashville’s titillating places; from the limo window we leer Tootsie’s, the Ryman Auditorium, Second Avenue, Lower Broadway. We portion our hurry with Ralph Stanley, who has “reach down from the mountain.” We utilize time backstage at the Ryman while the performers are waiting their turns, and eavesdrop on John Hartford as he spins a legend about wanting to be a librarian. We listen to a couple of blues players talk about their work and explore that Emmylou Harris is a baseball fan. The demonstrate itself is country at its best. Rock and roll doesn’t expose its face; there are no gyrations or substantial hats or shrill voices. Fair country, with memories of the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and a plethora of veteran time musicians who sang of hard times and death and endurance. We will always remember Emmylou Harris’s sweet, fair tell, Allison Krause’s melodic outpouring, and Gillian Welch’s dazzling harmony. We’ll remember the Peasall sisters and the Fairfield Four and Ralph Stanley; but most of all, we’ll remember the magic moment when John Hartford began to whine “Vast Rock Candy Mountain.” It was one of his last performances before he succumbed to cancer, but his pronounce was exact and strong, and his hands obvious on the violin. This was venerable time music as it should be, and even the newer songs sounded former. It reminds us of how far unusual country music has strayed from its roots, and how easy and pleasurable it is to go befriend to them again.
I wasn’t positive that a documentary about bluegrass music was going to be something that a) I would delight in, b) something I would secure compelling or c) something that would turn me onto an position of music and performances enough to get me rethink my old-fashioned country snobbishness. “Down from the Mountain” made me a convert on all the above bases and more. This documentary-style film about the music and artists who comprise the soundtrack for “Oh, Brother, Where art Thou? ” include the colossal talents of Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch. These women have ways of lovingly massaging a ballad until it truly has a life of it’s possess. The soulful words and melodies of family artists like the Whites, and the Cox family are wonderfully done, as are the younger performers who procure to ramp up the tempo for their rendition of “Highways and the Hedges”. Then there’s the wonderfully dry-witted John Hartford, who takes a few moments aside from his emcee responsibilities to give a toe-tapping rendition of “Colossal Rock Candy Mountain”. The film takes you for a backstage pass (OK, is Emmylou Harris THAT mammoth of a baseball fan!) AND a front row performance in the acoustically astonishing Ryman Theatre. Through a mix of gospel, bluegrass, blues and country, the viewer gets a right treat of hearing and seeing what was the musical underpinning for the Coen brother’s blockbuster film. You might very well meet some original musical artists in this video. I did. They seem to absorb a different countenance from other contemporary artists, demonstrating a solid reliance on song style, harmonies, acoustics, and ultimately bringing “everything out but the kitchen sink” in their delivery, and that was it for me. The words are familiar and the songbirds beckon, near smile, yell, clap your hands, or express, “Hallelujah!”, mountain life is gorgeous obliging and your journey’s objective beginning.
Smokeless Cigarettes
San Francisco Wedding Photographer
Portable Displays
Quit Smoking Cigarettes