Country Music: The Spirit of America

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Country Music: The Spirit of America
File:OurCountryPoster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Steven Goldmann
Keith Melton
Tom Neff
Produced by Randy Scruggs
Tom Neff
Written by Tom Neff
Starring Emily Lalande
Narrated by Hal Holbrook
Music by Randy Scruggs
Cinematography Steven D. Smith
Rodney Taylor
Edited by Barry Rubinow
Distributed by IMAX
Giant Screen Films
Release dates
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  • June 2, 2003 (2003-06-02) (United States)
Running time
 45 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Country Music: The Spirit of America is a 2003 documentary film, in the IMAX format, written and co-produced by Tom Neff and co-directed by Neff, Steven Goldmann and Keith Melton. Randy Scruggs was also a producer on the film and wrote the music score. The film traces the history of the United States in the 20th Century through country music, and is also known as Our Country.[1]

Cast

  • Emily Lalande as Time Traveling Sprite
  • Austin Stout as Austin
  • Hannah Swanson as Time Traveling Sprite
  • Benton Jennings as Comic Old West Cowboy
  • Tommy Barnes as Stage Manager
  • Terry Ike Clanton as Crazed Prisoner
  • Tony Nudo as Joe, man at the train station
  • Jaclynn Tiffany Brown as Fresh Faced Teen

Interviews and music performers

Reception

Critical response

When the film was released, Jane Sumner, film critic for The Dallas Morning News, lauded the film, and wrote, "It's been three years coming. But now that it's here, the IMAX film Our Country, originally titled Twang, makes a rousing addition to this year's State Fair of Texas ... Written and produced by Tom Neff, who produced the six-part TV miniseries America's Music: The Roots of Country for TBS, the documentary celebrates country music as a mirror of the American experience across 90 years ... Vintage photos, archival news footage (including a shot of O.J. Simpson trying on that pesky glove) and Mr. Neff's intelligent, lyrical commentary, narrated by Hal "Deep Throat" Holbrook, trace the history of country music as it parallels the nation's."[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Our Country at IMDb.
  2. ↑ Sumner, Jane The Dallas Moning News, film review, Overnight Section, page 6-B, September 27, 2003.

External links

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