Two Trains Runnin’ is a feature-length documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sam Pollard, narrated by Common, and featuring the music of Gary Clark Jr.
Date/Time: Dec 5 2016, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
West Vancouver, Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | Event calendarCost: $10.00
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You had to be very brave or very foolish to venture into Mississippi in the summer of 1964. The civil rights movement was coming to a boil. But three East Coast music enthusiasts had their minds on something quite different: the long-forgotten Delta blues man Son House. Meanwhile on the West Coast, another group of young men—including the guitarist John Fahey—embarked on a very similar quest: tracking down Son House contemporary Skip James. Neither group knew about the other, nor did they anticipate the murderous temper of the times down South, where black activists’ strategy of enlisting white student support was beginning to make an impression on the national consciousness, to the fury of segregationists.
Pollard uses animated sequences to takes us back into sixties, a ploy that pays off handsomely, and has enlisted some of today’s best blues practitioners to comment in song, including Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr, Lucinda Williams, Valerie June, the North Mississippi Allstars and more. The film pays tribute to a pioneering generation of musicians and cuts to the heart of our present moment, offering a crucial vantage from which to view the evolving dynamics of race in America.
Director: Sam Pollard
In partnership with DOXA
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