I don't have any shows lined up for January, which I don't much like. But I did have one exciting musical moment in the last two weeks. I finally watched Les Blank's film A Poem is a Naked Person, which is a sort of profile...
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I'd seen quite a few of Les Blank's documentaries, but I had missed his profile of Clifton Chenier and the Cajun culture around him, Hot Pepper. That it combines music,.
Criterion Channel is running a program of Les Blank's documentaries. I have seen quite a few of his groundbreaking and wonderful work in the 70s and 80s documenting American folk.
I had a whole bunch of stuff to write about today and then it didn't happen for a number of reasons. But I still found time to watch Les Blank's 1978 film about the culture of New Orleans, Always for Pleasure. It's not available as...