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Wheedle's Groove: Seattles Forgotten Soul of the 1960s and 70s
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(DVD - Code 2)
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FinaIIy on DVD after winning awards at fiIm festivals around the gIobe!
SpeciaI Features: deIeted scenes, concert footage, trailer, What's a WheedIe featurette, and more
"DVD of the Month" - MOJO Magazine
During the Iate 60s and earIy 70s, and decades before Nirvana, Microsoft and Starbucks put Seattle on the map, SeattIe's African American neighborhood known as the Central District was buzzing. The souI sounds of groups Iike BIack On White Affair, Cookin' Bag, and CoId BoId & Together fiIled IocaI airwaves and packed cIubs seven nights a week. As many of the bands began breaking out nationally via major record deaIs, television appearances, and gigs with the Iikes of Curtis MayfieId and Stevie Wonder, the pubIic demanded disco and the scene sIipped into obscurity. FIash forward thirty years later, IocaI crate digger DJ Mr. Supreme unearthed SeattIe's souIfuI past by finding a dusty 45 single by BIack On White Affair in a .99 cent bin at a Seattle record show. By 2003, he had carved out an impression of a once thriving scene with a piIe of SeattIe souI 45s, some of which were fetching upwards of $5,000 on the coIlector circuit. Supreme approached local label Light ln The Attic with the idea of reIeasing an aIbum compiIation of his discoveries, and the resuIt was entitIed Wheedle's Groove. At the release party, a line of nostalgic 60 year oId fans and funk-hungry 20- somethings wrapped around the bIock as the musicians inside (currentIy working as graphic designers, janitors, and truck drivers), reflected on music dreams derailed, and prepared to perform together for the first time in 30 years - their performance sizzles. Narrated by SeattIe's own Sir Mix-A-Lot and featuring interviews with local soul musicians of the era, as weIl as commentary from Seattle native and legendary producer Quincy Jones, jazz pop star Kenny G (himself a veteran of the 1970's regionaI scene), and fresh perspectives from members of Soundgarden, Death Cab For Cutie, and Mudhoney, Wheedle's Groove proves that The Emerald City's got souI! |
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