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What's the best music documentary you ever saw?

Any thoughts beside the obvious Dylan, Beatles, Stones films?

Permalink Reply by Shaun Belcher on April 11, 2008 at 6:35pm: Easy Les Blank's Flower Films of Mance Lipscombe and Lightnin Hopkins...

unemployment in eighties was made bearable by BBC repeats of them in mid afternoon ( we talking long before the dreaded Trish and Richard and Judy :-)

cool website with streaming film here or on youtube type in les blank

http://lesblank.com/

I added a Tommy Jarrell one to my page :-)

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Permalink Reply by Are We All On Or What? on April 11, 2008 at 7:33pm: that looks a fantastic site. amazing the stuff that used to be on terestrial tv. now they'd put it on more4 at about two in the morning.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Shaun Belcher on April 11, 2008 at 7:35pm: 4 in morning would be Faron Young then :-)

wish they would put r & J on then:-); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Old Lost John on April 13, 2008 at 10:37pm: Some interesting stuff here:
http://www.folkstreams.net/; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stephen Lee Canner on June 27, 2009 at 6:21pm: A couple of my all time favorites are "Chase the Devil", an early 80s British TV show on Appalachian religious music (available on DVD from Shanachie) and "Searching For the Wrong Eyed Jesus", more of an "artistic documentary" but an amazing trip through southern American music.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by The Big I Am on September 7, 2009 at 4:59pm: Not really the best but I really enjoyed the Beatles first trip to the USA on the box the other day.; ▶ Reply to This