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Nashville Film Festival 2011 is here, and there's plenty this year to reel in the music-minded. Here are a few that may strike your fancy: How to Grow a Band (dir. by Mark Meatto) – Follows the Punch Brothers through their first tour before their debut dropped The Last Ride (Harry Thomason) – Hank Williams' final days on the road from Alabama to Ohio in 1952 Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (Jacob Hatley) [...]

Photos by Steve Cross Check out the slideshows for more photos: Barry and The Remains; The Long Players perform the Easy Rider OST. In 45 years, we hope we even remember what it means to rock, much ... Continue reading "Barry and The Remains at the Nashville Film Festival Closing Party 4/23/09" >

So here's the third and final music doc I screened for the NaFF (which starts today, fools! Get your passes). This one probably needs a bit of a preface. Unless you've traveled in Northern Africa or... Continue reading "Nashville Film Festival: Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" >

Here's yet another doc I had the pleasure of screening. Trying to Get Good chronicles the odyssey of jazz cat Jack Sheldon, who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest trumpet players in the w... Continue reading "Nashville Film Festival: Trying to Get Good" >

The 40th annual Nashville Film Festival draws ever closer. One of the films I got to check out was RiP: A Remix Manifesto, which (perhaps amazingly) was funded in part by the Canadian government. He... Continue reading "Nashville Film Festival: RiP: A Remix Manifesto" >

The Nashville Film Festival is nearly upon us! Resident film and general awesomeness guru Jim Ridley pitched a few screeners the Cream's way, so we got some sneak peeks at several of the films (many... Continue reading "Nashville Film Festival: Ashes of American Flags" >