Big Easy Express

(USA, 2012, 67 mins)

Executive Producer: Michael Cohl
Producers: Michael Cohl, Tim Lynch, Mike Luba, Bryan Ling
Cinematographer: Giles Dunning
Editor: Matt Murphy
Featuring: Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Old Crow Medicine Show

When the clickety-clack rhythm of train wheels speeding along a railroad track is joined by the melodic sounds of three stellar bands — Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and Old Crow Medicine Show — the result is a magical musical railway revival across the American landscape that both Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck would be proud of. As the six-city whistle-stop tour travels by vintage train from Oakland to New Orleans, filmmaker Emmett Malloy is onboard to capture the bands as they come together, share stories and revel in the glory of making music.

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