Back To Index Billy Bragg and Wilco: Man In The Sand
 Barnes & Noble A vital companion piece to the vigorous, magical albums Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue, vol. 2 which celebrate the words and music of Woody Guthrie, Man in the Sand provides an interesting counterpoint to other documentaries about folk pioneers like Ramblin Jack Elliott (The Ballad of Ramblin Jack) and Bob Dylan (Dont Look Back and Eat the Document). This warts-and-all portrait deals not just with the resurrection of Guthries poetry but his political conscience. More than an incisive biography of Woody, Man documents Nora Guthries efforts to get her fathers 1,000 pages of unpublished lyrics and poems recorded more than 30 years after his death. She found the ideal accomplice in English troubadour-activist Billy Bragg, who -- at the start of the movie -- is in the midst of an American road trip retracing Guthries wandering routes. He ends up visiting her in Coney Island, walking the sames shores and windy piers as his mentor, and enlisting alt-country poster boy Jeff Tweedy and the band Wilco for the mammoth task ahead. Far from a fawning profile, Man in the Sand captures the edginess of this collaboration, as everyone -- particularly Tweedy and Bragg -- brings their own vision of Guthrie to the project. In the end, whats marvelous about the movie is the fact that Guthries artistic relevancy has inspired all of this productive friction -- resulting in two of the most moving folk-rock albums in recent memory. The Man in the Sand DVD includes more than 20 of the Mermaid songs, plus five bonus, audio-only versions of "Birds and Ships," the proto-feminist ballad "She Came Along to Me," "I Guess I Planted," "Eisler On the Go," and "The Unwelcome Guest". Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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