This Land Is Your Land - The Folk Years
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Actor: Judy Collins, Kingston Trio, Smothers BrothersBrand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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DVD Review: This Land May Be Your Land-But Folk Musak Has Got To Go
Summary: 3 Stars
Sorry, fellow folkies but I am going to get up on my soapbox today. I have just viewed a Public Broadcasting System (PBS) - made concert film from 2002 that stars a number of the lesser lights of the folk revival of the 1960s that, frankly, has set my teeth on edge. You know groups like the Kingston Trio, The Highwaymen, the present day version of the New Christy Minstrels, and individuals like Judy Collins and Roger McGuinn. Soft-core folk, or as I put it in my headline- folk musak. Hell, the producers even brought out the Smothers Brothers and their tired old shtick. Now, as I pointed out elsewhere, this is a calculated and clever stratagem on their parts, in order to use this concert as a vehicle for the seemingly endless fundraiser that the system does. As I also pointed out a number of months ago in a similar review of a James Taylor concert these PBS guys know their demographics.
What they apparently don't know is when to cry "uncle". Some voices from the folk revival of the 1960s still have some spunk. Dylan on a good night. Same with Baez. A whole slew of lesser known names like Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Rosalie Sorrels before she retired, and others put on solid performances with new material at comparable ages to the folks who performed here. Now all musical tastes are highly individual and I admit that, on more than one occasion, have been heard in the old hootenanny days and now, to sing a go to things like the Kingston Trio's "MTA" song and "Tom Dooley". Judy Collins' "Amazing Grace" and "Both Sides Now". Or even the Limelighters "Greenfields". But, almost two hours of this stuff. Come on. Give me fifteen minutes of Dave Van Ronk, Lou Reed, or any of that slew mentioned above any day. No, I will not go gentle into that good night, thank you.
Note: The only really redeeming musical factors in this whole concert were the three songs performed by Roger McGuinn. He came alive with his versions of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", Pete Seeger's adaptation of "Turn, Turn, Turn" and a virtuoso long acoustic performance of The Birds' "Eight Miles High". He, at least, knew how to keep us awake past our bedtimes. Thanks, Roger.
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