It’s rare to see a new interview with someone whose music is featured in a Woody Allen movie, in that most such people have been dead for fifty years. If that’s an exaggeration, it’s a slight one; the 72-year-old Allen isn’t one for Footloose-style compilations of potential Top 40 hits (of course, by citing Footloose I now feel 72 years old myself). He’s more prone to raiding his collection of 78s for the likes of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman, and while he often comes up with some great stuff, it’s still very familiar stuff – just one more element of his filmmaking style that has grown stale over the years.
So it’s at least a little encouraging to learn that the Woodman’s latest, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, features music by a living, breathing band.
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