What a fun documentary about folk-rock music in the 1960s, with historic videos, interviews, new covers of classic songs, and aerial photography of Laurel Canyon, where I lived from 1983-2001.
Tom Petty is heavily featured in conversation with Jakob Dylan (son of Bob), shot just before Petty's 2017 death. We also have contemporary footage of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Roger McGuinn, Ringo Starr, John Sebastian, Michelle Phillips, Graham Nash, and more. There's no Joni Mitchell nor Bob Dylan in this movie.
Jakob Dylan put together a cover band that released a live album of songs from that era performed by, among others, Fiona Apple, Beck, Jade Castrinos (I hadn't heard of her--apparently she sang for a time with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros--but she kills on a couple of solos), Cat Power, and Regina Spektor. It was recorded in 2015 at the Orpheum in LA and can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, and more. Later that night, we streamed songs by The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Mamas & Papas...well, you get the picture. Hearing Sloop John B by The Beach Boys even sent me looking for The Kingston Trio's 1958 version of it. I'm very old, and the sister of some even older fellows, one of whom must have had the record lying around our apartment.
Music manager and record label executive Andrew Slater makes his debut directing and sharing a writing credit with Eric Barrett, the latter of whom has a number of producing credits.
Here's a personal connection. While living in Laurel Canyon, I walked around the hills for an hour 3-4 times a week. One day I caught up with a woman pushing a stroller and we chatted and walked together. Turns out she was Jakob's mother-in-law and the baby was Jakob's kid.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are in agreement with us, both averaging 92%. The movie is streaming right now on Netflix.
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