Wednesday, September 14, 2011
REUNIONS
Today's film was the documentary
James Taylor and Carole King with various talking heads remember the LA club of the same name. And whip up a pretty good runup of their 2010 Troubadour tour.
I was in my 30s when the era of the singer-songwriter came to be and I was a fan of most of these people.
It is like a scrapbook of the times with some neat perspective on what happened, how it happened and where they are now.
Taylor speaks frankly of his recovery from addiction. He now has 27 years and clearly works it.
Many familiar faces and voices talk about the times, the Troubadour club and its owner, Doug Weston.
Many are quite realistic that those days had to end and, while they were wonderful times, they also had their down side and problems. These are grown up people now. Parents, grandparents, many with still lively careers and making some good bucks from the royalties from their everlasting hits.
I liked it. It was a little teary here and there. I never much liked Carole King but I like her better now.
I will give it a Netflix3.
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