The music will be managed by TBone, the script by his girlfriend, Callie(writer of "Thelma and Louise"). If the movie is only about Monroe and Bessie Lee Mauldin, then it is certainly not covering but a small slice of Bill's life/career. I don't look for it to be for anything other than entertainment purposes. I have heard that there's a few fiddlers that have cut tracks so far, but no mandolineers. Sure, I'm sure there's a veritable plethora of players hovering around. Same as it was when Bill was a'living. Nobody's saying anything. Seems like this may be the same project that Ronnie McCoury has been mentioning for a few years now, only now TBone's involved. But then, I ain't got a clue.
TBug On Aug 26, 7:30 am, Mark Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > T-Bone Burnett sure does gets his fingers into a lot of juicy project > type pies... > > I wonder how he is gonna handle choosing a mandolin player for this? > > I'd imagine that theres a pick of mando-folks would be itching and > bitching to tie their playing to the Monroe legacy, while others still > may see it as a bit too daunting a mantle to take? > > Perhaps, the best, that is most politic, way would be to use archive > recording materials, but that don't seem the T-Bone way... > > Strangely, i'd like it if they composed new incidental-athmosphere > musics in some of Monroe's voicings, i thinking more of the blues/ > gospel flavour than the to be expected hard-kicking bluegrass numbers. > > On Aug 24, 3:43 pm, Jason Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I thought this might be of interest to the Taterbug Group. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Art Menius <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM > > Subject: Bill & Bessie Lee movie announced > > To: [email protected] > > >http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2010/08/19/maggie-gyllenhaal-peter-sarsg... > > > HollywoodNews.com: The life of bluegrass music pioneer, Bill Monroe, will be > > brought to the big screen in a feature starring real life couple Maggie > > Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. > > > Sarsgaard is set to portray Monroe while Gyllenhaal will easily play the > > musician’s lover Bessie Lee Mauldin. > > > Digital Spy overheard Gyllenhaal saying “Bill Monroe, who invented Blue > > Grass music, had a kind of Sid and Nancy-style affair with this woman Bessie > > Lee Mauldin throughout his life. > > > “T-Bone Burnett’s going to do the music and Callie Khouri, who wrote ‘Thelma > > & Louise,’ wrote the script so we’re going to do that together.” > > > [email protected] > > Cell: 606-821-5446 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > To view the IBMA-L archives, visit the web > > site:http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/ibma-l.html > > For all the latest information about our Association, visit:http://ibma.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
