Take Me to the River: New Orleans

That piling-on of talent, from different generations and musical genres, is what makes Take Me to the River such an exhilarating project,

Take Me to the River: New Orleans contains a lot of good music and a number of fascinating subjects for discussion, but never quite figures out how to bring them all together in a satisfying manner.

Eventually the film finds its own rhythm. A movie that includes this disproportionate an amount of the world’s leading experts in syncopation would be hard-pressed not to.

It's partly a promotional vehicle showing the recording of the songs on the movie's soundtrack and partly a history of New Orleans music culture. The documentary has got some editing issues, but the diverse performances in the studio are joyous to watch.

An exhilarating tribute to the music of New Orleans

Take Me To The River: New Orleans is edited together in a way more organic to music than traditional documentaries, which works wonders.

It's educational, all this stuff about "second lines" and the "Habanera tempo," who learned from whom and who wrote or invented what. And Shore is to be celebrated for getting all these folks documented and down on film before it's too late.

Take me to The River: New Orleans is a joyous documentary about the music that brings life to the city of New Orleans and has no signs of stopping.

I cannot even count how many times during Take Me to the River: New Orleans I found myself literally bawling with pleasure.

I loved watching all these amazing artists and musicians recording the tunes.