Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Could also be Barry Mitterhoff, as he was once a Bluegrass Boy and he lives up east. But this is all just speculation. What is disturbing is the dispute about where the film will be made and all the wrangling about incentives from both offices of film for Kentucky and Tennessee. But that's capitalism I guess. Like Monsieur Pomme d'Terre, I'm not holding my breath or throwing away my crutches in expectation of high art and a real rendition of True Life Blues. Taube On Sep 26, 4:24 pm, Mark Halpin tomas...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sep 17, 6:32 pm, Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! Singing aside, the first thing i thought was 'Andy Statman is to be found in New York', so maybe not as daft as it first seems? Heck-o, i figure he'll only need to learn a few chord shapes, basic runs and maybe how to wear the strap over one shoulder anyhow :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Looks like putting the movie together might foreshadow the story line, lots of doings there to nail down where and what. Heaps of famous musicians, actors, writers, etc. (other creative sorts) have had turbulent lives, and not many were able to live as long as Monroe did, in part because of how badly they used their bodies during the time they had for what ever reasons.Being so far out of the loop and so far away, I don't know much about the main players/writers, producers, etc. in this one so can't comment on that. Getting any sort of book about Monroe means I have to pay a huge shipping bill, and there are so many books to buy. Any movie about Monroe and his life will be interesting to see and will likely make it to Australia. I do think it will spur an interest in the style and yes maybe made by different folks would be good, with an aim to stick to the facts and not make a circus out of it or demean Mr. Monroe with things that are not so. And there will be opportunities for folks to point out failings if there are any, in the final cut and I hope they do as that also adds to things hey? There are good forums out there to get various messages around. Hopefully some of those folks will be invited to the first showing, and git a jump on the commentary. Lets just hope they have the sense when not using original sound tracks to ask Mr. Compton to oblige them with his expertise and talent. It would be wrong to do otherwise. Two cents from Australia linda On Sep 21, 10:30 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: And Campbell Mercer hasn't made a mockery of Monroe? Maybe he oughta read up on how he's handled things in his *own* backyard. I really think that anybody who's looking to this movie to be anything other than entertainment is just asking to be disappointed. I haven't seen anything in print that's included the words 'historical' or 'documentary'. While the movie will probably bring in people who were not aware of Monroe's music, it doesn't appear that Bill's artistry is the focal point of the film. Like it or not, infidelities sell tickets more readily to the masses than hill country music does. There's just no point in us all chasing our tails over this. It's going to be what it's going to be and nothing will change that. Tbug On Sep 17, 11:32 am, Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
You nailed it Mike. 'nuff said. -Paul Custer,KY --- On Tue, 9/21/10, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 8:30 AM And Campbell Mercer hasn't made a mockery of Monroe? Maybe he oughta read up on how he's handled things in his *own* backyard. I really think that anybody who's looking to this movie to be anything other than entertainment is just asking to be disappointed. I haven't seen anything in print that's included the words 'historical' or 'documentary'. While the movie will probably bring in people who were not aware of Monroe's music, it doesn't appear that Bill's artistry is the focal point of the film. Like it or not, infidelities sell tickets more readily to the masses than hill country music does. There's just no point in us all chasing our tails over this. It's going to be what it's going to be and nothing will change that. Tbug On Sep 17, 11:32 am, Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Totally agree. Every time I catch Cumberland Highlanders I feel like they're dancing on the man's grave. mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: And Campbell Mercer hasn't made a mockery of Monroe? Maybe he oughta read up on how he's handled things in his *own* backyard. I really think that anybody who's looking to this movie to be anything other than entertainment is just asking to be disappointed. I haven't seen anything in print that's included the words 'historical' or 'documentary'. While the movie will probably bring in people who were not aware of Monroe's music, it doesn't appear that Bill's artistry is the focal point of the film. Like it or not, infidelities sell tickets more readily to the masses than hill country music does. There's just no point in us all chasing our tails over this. It's going to be what it's going to be and nothing will change that. Tbug On Sep 17, 11:32 am, Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
I think Mike is the natural choice for the soundtrack. I didn't mean to imply anything else in my previous post. I keep hearing Ronnie McCoury's name thrown out there and that sort of surprises me. No offense to him; I enjoy his playing. I just think Tater is the natural choice, given all things (and people) involved. On the one hand, I am excited that a film is being made about Monroe. On the other, I realize thay they will exploit a small facet of who he was and completely miss out on the wonderful legacy he left behind. Even if a full feature film were to be made with that in mind, it would be dang tought to do it justice in two hours. I would love to see a Ken Burns documentary on Bluegrass or a more in depth project like the High Lonesome DVD tackle the subject. Only something like that could really do it justice. On Tue 09/21/10 9:13 AM , Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net sent: Totally agree. Every time I catch Cumberland Highlanders I feel like they're dancing on the man's grave. mistertaterbug tater bugmu...@gmail.com wrote: And Campbell Mercer hasn't made a mockery of Monroe? Maybe he oughtaread up on how he's handled things in his *own* backyard. I reallythink that anybody who's looking to this movie to be anything otherthan entertainment is just asking to be disappointed. I haven't seenanything in print that's included the words 'historical' or'documentary'. While the movie will probably bring in people who werenot aware of Monroe's music, it doesn't appear that Bill's artistry isthe focal point of the film. Like it or not, infidelities sell ticketsmore readily to the masses than hill country music does. There's just no point in us all chasing our tails over this. It'sgoing to be what it's going to be and nothing will change that.Tbug On Sep 17, 11:32 am, Terry Bullin tbull...@y ahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga... @aol.com johnhga... @aol.com wrote: From: johnhga... @aol.com johnhga... @aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yah oogroups.com, dee pgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Maybe it's that New Yorker Thile? ;) On Sep 19, 9:57 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Who's giving him lessons? Tbug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Peter Sarsgaard is a very talented actor. I think it is great that he is taking the initiative to learn to play mandolin. I am sure he can find somebody in New York to help him learn to play mandolin! On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Terry Bullin wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he said. They said they liked some of the buildings downtown and might want to film some here. I just listened. Yes, hoping to shoot scenes at Rosine and Owensboro, Jolly said in an e-mail Tuesday. Too early for specifics though. Woodward says
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Who's giving him lessons? Tbug On Sep 19, 9:33 am, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard is a very talented actor. I think it is great that he is taking the initiative to learn to play mandolin. I am sure he can find somebody in New York to help him learn to play mandolin! On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Terry Bullin wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
I think it'd be smart move on Tone's part to have the project include a soundtrack of Monroe tunes recorded by leading Monroe authorities. I'd buy a copy. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:57:11 To: Taterbugmandotaterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe Who's giving him lessons? Tbug On Sep 19, 9:33 am, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard is a very talented actor. I think it is great that he is taking the initiative to learn to play mandolin. I am sure he can find somebody in New York to help him learn to play mandolin! On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Terry Bullin wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Monroe movie.T-Bone involved...seems natural that they ought to get MC involved on the soundtrack. There are many facets of Monroe's life that would make a great movie besides his rocky relationships with women. How about touring with tents, two trucks and half a baseball team or the Monroe brothers or -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he said. They said they liked some of the buildings downtown and might want to film some here. I just listened. Yes, hoping to shoot scenes at Rosine and Owensboro, Jolly said in an e-mail Tuesday. Too early for specifics though. Woodward says the movie should be filmed in Kentucky. Monroe was born -- and is buried -- in Kentucky. His band and the genre of music he created use the state's nickname. And his Blue Moon of Kentucky is the state's official bluegrass song. But Tennessee also wants the movie shot there. Battle of incentives And a battle of incentives is ensuing. They didn't understand our incentives, state Rep. Tommy Thompson, who represents Ohio County and eastern Daviess County, said Monday. I had the film office call and explain it to them, said Thompson, who pushed a film incentive package through the legislature in 2009. I think we may have a shot now. It's about bluegrass and Bill Monroe. It should be filmed in Kentucky. Business Lexington reported this week that the 2009 legislation would make filmmakers who spend at least $500,000 in Kentucky eligible to receive a 20 percent refundable tax credit for production and post-production expenses. Tennessee, the article said, offers a 13-17 percent tax rebate,
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he said. They said they liked some of the buildings downtown and might want to film some here. I just listened. Yes, hoping to shoot scenes at Rosine and Owensboro, Jolly said in an e-mail Tuesday. Too early for specifics though. Woodward says the movie should be filmed in Kentucky. Monroe was born -- and is buried -- in Kentucky. His band and the genre of music he created use the state's nickname. And his Blue Moon of Kentucky is the state's official bluegrass song. But Tennessee
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Lol. That was the same thing I said. Don't you mean Kentucky? Mandolin lessons in Kentucky. Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he said. They said they liked some of the buildings downtown and might want to film some here. I just listened. Yes, hoping to shoot scenes at Rosine and Owensboro, Jolly said in an e-mail Tuesday. Too early for specifics though. Woodward says the movie should be filmed in Kentucky. Monroe was born -- and is buried -- in Kentucky. His band and the genre
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Surely they are just showing him how to finger-sync kinda. I'd bet his playing ain't no part of nuthin'. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:13:41 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe Lol. That was the same thing I said. Don't you mean Kentucky? Mandolin lessons in Kentucky. Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
I suppose they will use original Monroe music tracks then. I admit the movie is going to be interesting to me. Mr. Monroe had a turbulent personal life, and it will be interesting to see part of the story. Might like to see about getting the book too. linda ps Nelson, I best you are right. On Sep 18, 6:07 am, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Surely they are just showing him how to finger-sync kinda. I'd bet his playing ain't no part of nuthin'. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:13:41 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe Lol. That was the same thing I said. Don't you mean Kentucky? Mandolin lessons in Kentucky. Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
I guess anything could happen, but it seems good that T-bone and family seem to be heavily involved. I could easily be wrong, but it seems as if he is someone who respects the music totally, but can also do things with it in the interest of telling a story. And Monroe's music deserves to be exposed to a wider audience as the passionate beast it is. 2010/9/17, Linda lj...@intas.net.au: I suppose they will use original Monroe music tracks then. I admit the movie is going to be interesting to me. Mr. Monroe had a turbulent personal life, and it will be interesting to see part of the story. Might like to see about getting the book too. linda ps Nelson, I best you are right. On Sep 18, 6:07 am, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Surely they are just showing him how to finger-sync kinda. I'd bet his playing ain't no part of nuthin'. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:13:41 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe Lol. That was the same thing I said. Don't you mean Kentucky? Mandolin lessons in Kentucky. Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie
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Think we'ins is gonna be subjected to some of that good old Kentucky pillow talk? Powerful thighs, Bessie, Powerful! ;) On Sep 17, 5:56 pm, Linda lj...@intas.net.au wrote: agree On Sep 18, 7:14 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: I guess anything could happen, but it seems good that T-bone and family seem to be heavily involved. I could easily be wrong, but it seems as if he is someone who respects the music totally, but can also do things with it in the interest of telling a story. And Monroe's music deserves to be exposed to a wider audience as the passionate beast it is. 2010/9/17, Linda lj...@intas.net.au: I suppose they will use original Monroe music tracks then. I admit the movie is going to be interesting to me. Mr. Monroe had a turbulent personal life, and it will be interesting to see part of the story. Might like to see about getting the book too. linda ps Nelson, I best you are right. On Sep 18, 6:07 am, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Surely they are just showing him how to finger-sync kinda. I'd bet his playing ain't no part of nuthin'. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:13:41 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe Lol. That was the same thing I said. Don't you mean Kentucky? Mandolin lessons in Kentucky. Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North
