{"id":803132,"date":"2020-01-16T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=938805"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:44:31","slug":"bruce-springsteen-eric-clapton-praise-the-band-in-once-were-brothers-documentary-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-eric-clapton-praise-the-band-in-once-were-brothers-documentary-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton Praise The Band in \u2018Once Were Brothers\u2019 Documentary Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/the-band-doc.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and Martin Scorsese praise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-band\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-band\" data-tag=\"the-band\">The Band<\/a> in the new trailer for <em>Once Were Brothers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robbie-robertson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robbie-robertson\" data-tag=\"robbie-robertson\">Robbie Robertson<\/a> and The Band<\/em>, an upcoming authorized documentary about the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere is no band that emphasizes becoming greater than the sum of its part than The Band,\u201d Springsteen says in the trailer. \u201cSimply their name: The Band. That was it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Scorsese, who directed The Band\u2019s legendary farewell <em>The Last Waltz<\/em> concert film, adds of their music, \u201cThis didn\u2019t sound like anything else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The trailer provides a quick overview of The Band\u2019s history, from their days backing Bob Dylan to their breakout debut album <em>Music From Big Pink<\/em> to that all-star farewell concert. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">The film itself, out February 21st in theaters, employs rare archival footage, photographs from the era, The Band\u2019s music and interviews with Robertson as well as Springsteen, Clapton, Scorsese, Van Morrison and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c<em>Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band<\/em> is a confessional, cautionary and occasionally humorous tale of Robertson\u2019s young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band,\u201d Magnolia Pictures said of the documentary.&nbsp; <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe film is a moving story of Robertson\u2019s personal journey, overcoming adversity and finding camaraderie alongside the four other men who would become his brothers in music, together making their mark on music history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The documentary initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-lists\/25-movies-we-cant-wait-to-see-at-toronto-film-festival-2019-862013\/once-were-brothers-robbie-robertson-and-the-band-862015\/\">premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival<\/a> before partnering with executive producers Scorsese, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for its theatrical release next month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/springsteen-clapton-the-band-once-were-brothers-documentary-trailer-938805\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and Martin Scorsese praise The Band in the new trailer for Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, an upcoming authorized documentary about the group. \u201cThere is no band that emphasizes becoming greater than the sum of its part than The Band,\u201d Springsteen says in the trailer. \u201cSimply their name: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-26 07:21:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}