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Demme, Young Doing Rock Doc
By Josh Grossberg1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Something wild's going down in Music City USA.
Paramount Classics has announced it will distribute an upcoming concert film
directed by Jonathan Demme that will capture Canadian rocker Neil Young's
upcoming two-night stand in Nashville, Tennessee, Daily Variety reports.
The doc, titled Prairie Wind, will be shot on Aug. 17 and 18 at the city's Ryman
Auditorium and will showcase a batch of new tunes the singer has yet to play
live that he recently finished for his forthcoming album, Cinnamon Girl, due out
on Reprise Records Sept. 27.
According to the trade, the studio's indie division agreed to acquire the movie
based on Demme and Young's track records without hearing any of the songs.
Demme, who won a Best Director Oscar for 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, is no
stranger to concert films having helmed perhaps the greatest in the genre,
1984's Stop Making Sense, which chronicled the Talking Heads' legendary rock and
roll odyssey.
Young, 59, has also dabbled in the theatrical during his shows. His 2003 concept
album Greendale was conceived as an elaborate multimedia rock opera/traveling
stage show that featured set pieces and a cast of more than two dozen actors
lip-synching along to a song cycle about people struggling in a fictional
California town.
The performance, which served as a vehicle by which the veteran musician offered
personal commentary on the state of American life and politics, was also
released as a movie and DVD.
Demme, whose soundtrack for his film Philadelphia featured an Oscar-nominated
track from Young, said the Crazy Horse frontman's impetus to join forces with
the filmmaker on Prairie Wind may have had something to do with the health
crisis he faced in April when he was treated for a brain aneurysm.
"Because he never backslides, I've talked to Neil often about doing a
performance film, and I knew this was right as soon as he sent me the CD," Demme
told Variety. "These songs, which cover everything from 9/11 to loving your
children, came from a deep place, and they are so dreamy and gorgeous. He
recorded them in between when he was told he had an aneurysm and when he had the
operation to correct it. Maybe he was in a certain special place."
Joining Young on stage, will be several notable guest musicians including
Emmylou Harris, who opened for him on his Greendale tour, Wayne Jackson of the
Memphis Horns, the Fisk Unversity Jubilee Singers and Carl Gordetsky and the
12-piece Nashville String Machine.
Demme is co-producing the picture with Playtone Productions, the company run by
Tom Hanks and producing partner Gary Goetzman, as well as Ilona Hertzberg, and
Elliot Rubinowitz and Bernard Shakey. (The latter two are pseudonyms used in
pictures by the Godfather of Grunge's manager Elliot Roberts and Young himself.)
A limited number of tickets are expected to be made available to the general
public in the run up to the show. If all goes well, Paramount will unspool the
concert film later this year in theaters, hopefully on the heels of the album's
release, though an exact target date has not been announced.


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