Dance All Night - the Highwoods
Stringband Story, Produced, directed and edited by Larry
Edelman. Walt Koken, Association
Producer, Paul Brown, Associate Editor, Piggysnout Productions and Mudthumper
Music, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, 2018 (MM-0041).
This is a
great old fashioned story telling way of getting at the history of the Highland
String Band.
It goes very
nicely with Walt's book, Fire On The Mountain: An American Odyssey
(Pennsylvania: Mudthumper Music, 2017).
A whole bunch
of steady handed people helped tell the story - Paul Brown, Joe Herrmann, for
example - and Larry Edelman rode herd as producer, director and editor.
But the
documentary's strength is the way the story was coaxed out of the band members
themselves - Walt, Bob, Mac, Doug and Jenny.
The film threaded contemporary interviews of the musicians into a great
narrative, and wrapped that in old footage and stills of the band . . . and
there's enough Highwoods music in this DVD to make that enough of a reason to
watch it from start to finish.
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