American Epic: Preview
Witness an historic recording session led by Jack White and T Bone Burnett with top artists, including Willie Nelson, Elton John, Nas, Taj Mahal, Alabama Shakes, Beck, and Los Lobos, as they recreate America’s musical past using a recording lathe.
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♪ Fourteen rivers, fourteen floods... ♪ Bend your body ♪ to the heavens above ♪ Don't get drunk ♪ Don't get dry ♪ Just bring your money ♪ next Saturday night ♪♪ ♪ [harmonica and humming] ♪ [guitar music] JACK WHITE: A lot of these songs that have changed the world, really They changed music they changed popular music and they changed popular culture around the world for the last hundred years.
ELTON JOHN: It's more than a music documentary This is history.
It's about music that's original, influential, funky, soulful It's truly an important cultural document.
NAS: This started with America.
This started a long time ago.
