Musical Worlds Collide in ‘Great Debaters’
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- Musical Worlds Collide in ‘Great Debaters’
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- Misery no more: Leith brothers banish the blues
Musical Worlds Collide in ‘Great Debaters’
NPR – Dec 24, 2007
Blending the disparate melodies of blues jazz gospel country and even opera the film’s soundtrack helps bring the complexities of the Deep South in the ’30s to life. Music supervisor G. Marq Roswell says he was inspired by the challenges the film presented. “It was the rich tapestry of all the African-American music in 1935 and these different worlds colliding” he says. The film opens with Austin Coleman’s “My Soul Is a Witness” swooping and gliding over southern swamps into a backwoods juke joint. Washington says that as soon as he heard it he knew the song was exactly what the film needed. He used the song to prove from the first moment of the opening scene that there is nothing dry about this debate tale.
riginal scores no more
Columbus Dispatch – Dec 24, 2007
“I didn’t want connotations for people to have an idea in their heads if they’ve heard them inother movies or had other preconceptions with pre-existing material. We felt it was reallyimportant for the film to feel real for it to feel like a real band. John Sayles also wanted original music for the upcoming Honeydripper about rival juke joints in 1950 Alabama rather than choose bluesor R&B songs that people already know. Sayles co-wrote several of the tunes — something he’d done for Limbo Sunshine State and other previous films. “Here with the genre we’re in we can tailor something more specifically by writing in thatgenre than we can finding something to fit that moment” he said. Plus it’s more cost-efficient the longtime independent filmmaker said. “The film rights for music have shot way up from when I began.
Misery no more: Leith brothers banish the blues
Edinburgh Evening News – Dec 24, 2007
Midway through the act the Reid twins had a surprise ? rock star Wreckless Eric was introduced to help sing along to his 1978 hit The Whole Wide World which is covered by The Proclaimers on their new album. The crowd was surprisingly mixed for a pop duo that has been around for more than 20 years with fans young and old singing and waving along. The bespectacled brothers may be just as famous for their love of football as they are for their music and created their own 90 minutes of magic for their adoring fans. So it came as no surprise when at the beginning of Sunshine of Leith the venue was suddenly full of “C’mon the Hibees” cries along with green and white scarves waving in homage to the Easter Road football team. Although The Proclaimers may sometimes be seen as a novelty and are certainly not to everyone’s taste any band who can get a crowd of hundreds to scream “da da da dun diddle un diddle uh da da” at the top of their lungs must surely be doing something right. The full article contains 288 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper. Page 1 of 1 Last Updated: 24 December 2007 11:01 AM Source: Edinburgh Evening News Location: Edinburgh Bookmark:.
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