Lightning in a Bottle
What better way to inaugurate the 26th Annual Redwood Coast Music Festival than with one of the greatest blues events of all time. No ordinary concert movie, LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE is the record of an amazing evening at Radio City Music Hall in February 2003, when a host of artists paid tribute to the “Year of the Blues.” Produced by Martin Scorsese as the culmination of his Blues Film Project, the film is punctuated by contemporary interviews and vintage films clips of past blues greats while the performance highlights go on and on. From Angelique Kidjo's African opener "Zélié," to Mavis Staples's gut-wrenching "See That My Grave is Kept Clean," Keb' Mo's cover of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," India.Arie’s "Strange Fruit," Buddy Guy’s riff on "Voodoo Chile, " and then Ruth Brown, Solomon Burke, Bonnie Raitt, the Neville Brothers, Robert Cray and B. B. King, director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day") offers a great consolation prize in lieu of being there.
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