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David Carradine by strumming his guitar with words of inspiration, Woody Guthrie instilled hope in the hearts of downtrodden Americans everywhere during the 1930s Depression. Now, the extraordinary life of this legendary balladeer and poet is captured in this "elegantly crafted, hugely beautiful and interesting film, which reveals loving integrity in every frame" (Los Angeles Times)! Winner of two Oscars and starring David Carradine, Bound for Glory features "magnificent cinematography" (New York) and an amazing score adaptation.

It's 1936, and the Great Depression is forcing droves of people from the dust bowls of Texas to the alluring green fields of California...and unemployed sign-painter Woody Guthrie is among them. Determined to find a better life out west, Guthrie hitchhikes, hops freight trains and sings his way across America, uplifting the spirits of the poor with his homespun wisdom and fiercely fighting for a better life for all.

Featuring classic Guthrie tunes including This Land Is Your Land, this "moving, inspiring" (The Hollywood Reporter) portrait of an American icon is "one of [the] year's most admirable and triumphant surprises" (Los Angeles Times)! *1976: Cinematography, Music (Adaptation Score).

The film shot in country side of Isleton, just out of Stockton California. And it is in the style of filming using live music, that gives Carradine's performance it 's reality. Using vintage Gibson guitars and later Martins, Carradines captures versions of Guthrie's songs full of warmth and a real sense of direction in this country, alla 1936 Dust Bowl.

There is a wonderfull sceen of a hodown, with Haskell Wexler's camera seemingly floating through the fireside groups gathered around, one song blends into another lost in a swirl.

Carradine as Musician

When I enter the room, the movie legend that is David Carradine, dressed in black, smiles from a cozy, high-backed chair (from which he does not get up). He’s dressed in all black and every bit as alluring and iconic to me that he must have been to Quentin Tarantino when writing his post-modern, retrofitted, souped-up, loving B-movie homage Kill Bill, Volume II. There’s barely time to say hello before Carradine lifts an oversized flute to his lips and begins to play. When he finishes, I’m all but mesmerized and have willingly tiptoed to the edge of journalistic objectivity, taken by Carradine’s spell while scenes from his 70s and 80s B-movie catalogue (i.e., my childhood) fast-forward in my mind. He speaks. I listen.

David Carradine: …Bought this thing in London, and the reason I was able to find it was because an orchestra from East Germany playing in London, the flute player defected, and this is an alto flute, the flute player rarely needs it most symphonies and s**t like that don’t have one. So he sold it. He kept his concert flute so he could work, but sold this flute so he could live. And I got to buy it. A flute made in East Germany. There was no other way you could get this flute except from a defector. And I later found out that this was called a Sonora, and they said if you want to play a Mozart symphony, then you want a Powell, made in America. But if you want to write a love song, you want a Sonora. That’s what I do.

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David Carradine Dies at 72; Star of 'Kung Fu'

David Carradine Dies at 72; Star of 'Kung Fu'

Source: Michael Ricci

Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. A Thai newspaper indicates he committed suicide.

David Carradine, who became a TV icon in the early 1970s starring as an enigmatic Buddhist monk with a flair for martial arts in “Kung Fu" and more recently played the head of a group of assassins in the “Kill Bill" movies, has been found dead in Bangkok, Thailand. He was 72.

Carradine was found hanged ...

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Bound for Hell, or Glory, at the Cinematheque

Bound for Hell, or Glory, at the Cinematheque

Source: All About Jazz

Not since I saw Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner go at each other in an excellent production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a couple of years ago have I experienced a night of live theater quite as riveting as the three-way cage match between David Carradine, Haskell Wexler, and the audience the other night following an American Cinematheque screening.

I keep alluding to what a nerve-wracking, weird and wonderful night this was, and I've gotten asked to go into ...

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Woody Guthrie's Music Inspires Americas Dust Bowl Era Desperation

Woody Guthrie's Music Inspires Americas Dust Bowl Era Desperation

Source: All About Jazz

Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s.

He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her family and, like thousands of others, rides the rails to California. Along the way he sees the brutal treatment of men by the railroad's hired thugs before being ...

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David Carradine: Still Punchy After All These Years

David Carradine: Still Punchy After All These Years

Source: All About Jazz

It's still early, but it's pretty safe to say that the award for the “Craziest Post- Screening Panel Discussion of the Year".

It has to go to David Carradine and Haskell Wexler, who got to show everyone who stayed after an American Cinematheque screening of Hal Ashby's “Bound for Glory" just what it must've been like to have lived through the '60s.

It's not exactly a news flash that Carradine, best known for his many small and big screen roles ...

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David Carradine @ Screening 'Bound for Glory' Tonight

David Carradine @ Screening 'Bound for Glory' Tonight

Source: All About Jazz


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David Carradine and The Cosmic Rescue Team Wednesday, June 28th at the Iridium Jazz Club

David Carradine and The Cosmic Rescue Team Wednesday, June 28th at the Iridium Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz

Iridium Jazz Club 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 Sets at 8:30 & 10:30PM

Is Pleased To Present David Carradine and The Cosmic Rescue Team Wednesday, June 28th

Multi-award winning legendary actor and director David Carradine puts his musical talents on display when he and The Cosmic Rescue Team take the stage.

Though known primarily for his film and television roles, Carradine's musical ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Kill Bill

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2004

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