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Thread #112659   Message #2392024
Posted By: Spleen Cringe
18-Jul-08 - 08:55 AM
Thread Name: Review: Harry Smith Film: Old Weird America
Subject: RE: Review: Harry Smith Film: Old Weird America
Sounds like a great film- I'd like to see it. The "Anthology..." is phenomenally good and even worth the import tax my ordered-from-the-U.S. copy got slapped with by those heathens at customs!

Nick Cave is someone whose songwriting - at its best - is fantastic. Some of the best renditions of his songs are by others, though - The Walkabouts or Johnny Cash, for instance. His own voice can be an acquired taste.

For the "new weird America", Jim White's Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a cracking documentary.