This beautifully photographed film, a patterned and composed documentary, is a little like D'Toqueville. A couple of British filmmakers, taken with American roots music like so many of their brethren, lay out a map of the southern subconscious with the help of some singer songwriters, Pentecostals and Jesus.
This is an evocative, elusive and still elucidative work that helped me understand and accept what had been the dark flip-side of my America. They lead us on a journey, wide-eyed and tinged with love, into the prisons, honky tonks and churches, where the stories this music tells are born.
This is an evocative, elusive and still elucidative work that helped me understand and accept what had been the dark flip-side of my America. They lead us on a journey, wide-eyed and tinged with love, into the prisons, honky tonks and churches, where the stories this music tells are born.