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Podcast #18: Troubadours
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Morgan Neville has covered a lot of ground in his music doc career, from Nat King Cole to Hank Williams to the Brill Building to Memphis soul. But never has he – or many other nonfiction filmmakers, for that matter – made such a neck-snapping swerve in subject matter between projects as with his latest work. After documenting the making of Iggy and the Stooges’ snarling 1973 album Raw Power, one of the holy relics of punk, in Search and Destroy (about which we podcasted last spring), Neville turns to the introspective, strummy Southern California sound of early ‘70s with Troubadours, which recounts the singer-songwriter scene around LA’s famed Troubadour club, launching pad for James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and many more.Shortly before taking Troubadours to the Sundance Film Festival, where it’s entered in the US Documentary Competition, Morgan Neville joined See It Loud to talk about the film and the scene it chronicles – a cultural “interregnum,” as he terms it, between the tumultuous ‘60s and the fractious late ‘70s that left a rich but much-maligned musical legacy.
Opening theme by Los Musicos de Jose provided by Mevio’s Music Alley.
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Search and Destroy
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