DVD Times (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
News: Axiom Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Honeydripper on 22nd September 2008 priced at £17.99 RRP. From writer/director John Sayles, Honeydripper stars Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Stacy Keach and Mary Steenburgen, as well as fea...
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Among the hundreds of people who attended Hayes' funeral Monday in Memphis, Tenn., were his longtime songwriting partner David Porter;...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
R.I.P. Isaac Hayes and and thank you for sharing a lifetime of making music.
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The Master, Isaac Hayes “Listen - Isaac Hayes - Walk On By - MP3″ Greetings all. I come to you bearing some sad news (and a previously unscheduled post). The mighty Isaac Hayes has passed away. Known to most for his Oscar winning ‘Theme from Shaft’, Hayes was a major cog in the Stax soul music machine in the [...]
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Mable John on day one of the festival New Orleans piano man Henry Butler Otis Redding III Sugar Pie DeSanto in action Bishop Joe Simon and me Sugar Pie and me
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
John Sayles' new film is an evocative fable set in Alabama on the cusp of rock '*' roll, reports Noel McAdam
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Arts & entertainment: Mable John was at the heart of Berry Gordy's Motown revolution. Now, 40 years on, her role in John Sayles' Honeydripper is winning her new fans
TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
- Honeydripper is the soundtrack to the 2007 film of the same name, written and directed by John Sayles. The movie takes place in rural Alabama in 1950, when Jim Crow still rules the South and rock and roll is born out of the blues and gospel music. The early beginnings of rock can be heard in songs like “Move It on Over,” “Good Rockin’ Tonight” and “China Doll” and gospel is heard in “You Got to Choose,”...
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
Nathaniel Friedman | The versatile vocalist Mable John, now a novelist and minister, has come a long way since the 1960s soul era that made her (almost) famous.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Over thirty years ago, Mable John, former leader of Ray Charles's Raelettes, left the music business to become a minister. But that didn't stop John Sayles from casting her as an aging blues singer in his current film "Honeydripper."
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 24/02/2008
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
John Sayles' "Honeydripper" is set at the intersection of two movements that would change American life forever: civil rights, and rhythm & blues. They may have more to do with each other than you might think, although that isn't his point.
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 15/02/2008
John Sayles has always been regarded as an independent filmmaker. But like a few others, Jim Jarmusch and Lars van Trier, to name a few, Sayles can pull in big names to his modestly-budgeted independent character pieces. With his newest, Honeydripper, Danny Glover is the big name in play. But his supporting cast is just [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
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Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Honeydripper is the new film by John Sayles and concerns rural blues from the Deep South in the 1950s. Here's what they tell us about it: The story depicts a second chance for an aging bluesman, the kickoff to a young guitar turk's career and the rise of rock 'n' roll itself. The movie features [...]
