{"id":12387,"date":"2022-09-08T21:09:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T21:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/american-songwriter-full-movie-free\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T21:09:41","slug":"american-songwriter-full-movie-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/american-songwriter-full-movie-free\/","title":{"rendered":"American Songwriter &#8211; Full Movie &#8211; Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"American Songwriter - Full Movie - Free\"   width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yydMDXMtCAA?cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A kaleidoscopic musical road trip down a million mile highway of poetry, philosophy and life featuring Nashville hit songwriter, Danny Darst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t use the c word,\u201d responds Michael Altman when I attempt to pigeon hole Danny Darst as a country singer. \u201cThey\u2019re calling it Americana now \u2013 it\u2019s more country than anything else but it\u2019s just a bad term these days.\u201d Americana, I point out, was also a term used to describe his father\u2019s films \u2013 the late legendary Robert Altman, director of seminal American movies like Nashville, the 1975 musical that shares a setting with American Songwriter, Altman Jr\u2019s directorial debut (and award winning documentary) on largely unknown Nashville singer-songwriter, philosopher and sometime actor Darst.<br \/>\n\u201cMy history with Danny goes back thirty-five years,\u201d Altman says \u201cHe acted in some of my father\u2019s films and would just come in and start playing his music. His first job was playing a piece for a small set of his plays called 2 By South. My father didn\u2019t have many close friends but he counted Danny as one of them and they appreciated each other\u2019s company.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve always loved Danny\u2019s music and been a huge fan \u2013 I consider him of the same calibre as Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon and McCartney\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nDanny Darst &#8211; American Songwriter<br \/>\nDanny Darst \u2013 American Songwriter<br \/>\nWith seventy hours of footage it was quite a challenge to condense American Songwriter into a sixty- minute documentary. \u201cWhat I know from working around my father all those years was that a film is made in the cutting room and it\u2019s about what you do with those pieces when you put it together. It was particularly challenging to keep it moving as Danny talks\u2026 real\u2026 slowly\u2026\u201d says Altman mimicking the singer\u2019s drawn out drawl. It\u2019s certainly been a fruitful odd couple collaboration, one that over an exhaustive two and a half years has produced the stage production Exit 10, two soundtrack albums, (with a third on its way), an independent feature and now this documentary.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve always loved Danny\u2019s music and been a huge fan \u2013 I consider him of the same calibre as Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon and McCartney and always thought it was a shame no one reported on his stuff, but he\u2019s such a humble person and hard to corner. He\u2019d play a song and you\u2019d turn around and he\u2019d be 300 miles down the track. I just wanted to document this creative guy who\u2019s led a tough life but is such a fabulous storyteller and certainly one of the best songwriters I\u2019ve ever been around. To be up close and personal with him is like hanging out with Bob Dylan \u2013 except nobody knows who he is.\u201d<br \/>\nOne of Michael Altman\u2019s own noteworthy contributions was, at the tender age of 14 writing the sombre lyrics to \u2018Suicide Is Painless\u2019, the infamous title song to his father\u2019s smash hit movie Mash. The theme was later re-used for the iconic TV series.<br \/>\n\u201cAt the time I was listening to a lot of Bob Dylan and I\u2019d written quite a simple song that Johnny Mandel turned into what everyone\u2019s familiar with today,\u201d Altman reflects. \u201cI wrote a lot of poetry when I was young. One day I walked into a conversation my father was having with [legendary filmmaker] Otto Preminger. I wanted to show him what I\u2019d written. They said \u2018we\u2019re just talking about this scene, why don\u2019t you see if you can write this song?\u2019 So I went away and wrote 102 verses of the most god awful crap you\u2019ve every heard in your life and told my father I couldn\u2019t do it and he said, \u2018I knew you wouldn\u2019t be able to do it!\u2019 So I replied, \u2018Oh yeah!\u2019 and went away again and wrote the whole thing. My father was pretty sharp!\u201d he smiles.<br \/>\nAmerican Songwriter became an equally organic process for Altman. Watching the film you come to appreciate Danny Darst \u2013 playing acoustic guitar and wearing his trademark cowboy hat, dark glasses and white handle bar moustache \u2013 for his simple, salt-of-the-earth existence. He\u2019s an observer and upholder of basic values. He strolls through the Nashville side streets and drives through rugged country, lamenting about the decimation of rural America and the importance of having faith, family and being a good neighbour \u2013 philosophy that is reinforced in his deeply soulful lyrics. We learn Robert Altman once said to him, \u201cWake me up early, be kind to my dog and teach my children how to pray\u201d \u2013 random words that Darst turned into verses for two songs. And it\u2019s this serendipity that truly resonates. \u201cA songwriter is a potential time bomb, because he can roll in in shirtsleeves, sleep in a dumpster, throw a song out there and six weeks later they are writing him huge checks,\u201d Darst murmurs memorably at one point in that archetypal drawl.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yydMDXMtCAA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kaleidoscopic musical road trip down a million mile highway of poetry, philosophy and life featuring Nashville hit songwriter, Danny Darst. \u201cWe don\u2019t use the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[334,896,7325,3511,7322,658,5329,648,7323,4577,803,250,189,3877,7326,543,1250,7,103,111,7324],"class_list":["post-12387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american","tag-americana","tag-cookies-fortune","tag-country-music","tag-danny-darst","tag-documentary","tag-folk-music","tag-free","tag-free-movie","tag-free-music","tag-full","tag-guitar","tag-independent","tag-indie","tag-indie-riths","tag-movie","tag-nashville","tag-rock","tag-songwriter","tag-songwriting","tag-this-american-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}