Because there are never enough documentaries that mention the great Townes Van Zandt (read: sarcasm), I’m sharing another one with you today. I have not been fortunate enough to view the documentary film For the Sake of the Song: The Story of Anderson Fair, directed by Bruce Bryant, which (sadly) does not seem to be commercially available on Amazon or other online outlet sources, BUT it is listed on Netflix (possibly on Instant Watch).
The documentary tells the story of Houston’s Anderson Fair, one of the oldest folk venues in operation in the United States. Over the years Anderson Fair has showcased pretty much every folk heavyweight to ever emerge from Texas, including Townes Van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, Guy Clark, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Lucinda Williams, and Vince Bell. The film features interviews, performances, and archived footage with most of these famous personalities.
From a review by Houston Chronicle writer Andrew Dansby:
From a review by Houston Chronicle writer Andrew Dansby:
“The result is more than a loving ode to a venue… Because the subject of the film is a place rather than a person, Anderson Fair serves as a hub in the film from which little narrative spokes extend.
“‘It’s not really about the physical space so much as about the spirit of the place,’ [producer Jim] Barham says. ‘One of the challenges is how do you tell a story about a place? So we wanted it to be an oral history, where we extracted the narrative from the people who lived this story.’”
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