Among the more interesting revelations, during his tenure as Editor of the New Yorker magazine, is that he is a big fan of The Boss. He has posted on the magazine’s website several times following his profile of Bruce Springsteen in the magazine last year. We normally shy away from posts about music on this site, for the same reason we shy away from cute kitten videos: you do not need more of that. But David Remnick’s writing is different. It is about community as much as it is about music. And his post today about this event in New York is not only about community, but about keeping heritage alive by infusing it with innovation–that is, entrepreneurial conservation:
When it comes to “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the new Coen brothers movie, I’ll respectfully leave the critical work to my colleagues Anthony Lane and David Denby, except to say that the movie’s appreciation of its great subject—the folk-music scene in Greenwich Village in the period just before Bob Dylan’s arrival—is wry, but full and soulful. Inspired by Dave Van Ronk’s wonderful memoir, “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” and many other sources, the Coens have their fun about the scene, but their love for the music—the depth and variety of it—could not be more evident.
Last night at Town Hall, the Coens and their colleagues put on a kind of promotional concert, called Another Day, Another Time, for the film. It featured big-name acts (Elvis Costello, Keb’ Mo’, Jack White, Patti Smith, Marcus Mumford) all performing at their earnest best; a folk icon, Joan Baez, proving that a voice challenged by time does little to diminish her presence and spirit; and some folk-music wizards—the Punch Brothers (led by the mandolin genius Chris Thile), the Avett Brothers, Gillian Welch, and Dave Rawlings—who formed the backbone of the night.
But what gave the evening its dynamism, its joy, was its sense of discovery. I may be way behind the curve here, but a few acts—the Milk Carton Kids, Rhiannon Giddens, and Lake Street Dive—were new to me, knocked me flat, and ought to be passed along. The Milk Carton Kids, the best known of the three acts (they’ve been on “Conan” and “A Prairie Home Companion”), are the duo of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, and they are anchored by a rolling Dave Rawlings-like guitar style and harmonies out of the Everly Brothers; here, they are playing their song “New York”:
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