{"id":2454487,"date":"2020-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=320780"},"modified":"2020-02-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:00:00","slug":"documentary-this-is-love-to-screen-at-aspen-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/documentary-this-is-love-to-screen-at-aspen-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary \u2018This is Love\u2019 to screen at Aspen Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Documentary “This is Love,” about soul musician Rudy Love, will screen at the Aspen Art Museum on Thursday night.<\/strong>
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You may not know his name or his songs, but you\u2019ll recognize funk and soul bandleader Rudy Love\u2019s sound from samples by contemporary hip-hop artists like Jay-Z and Dilated Peoples.<\/p>\n

A new documentary makes the case for Love as the great unsung hero of soul, tracing the Wichita-based musician\u2019s long and bumpy road to recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m mostly in it to make music myself, which has been my downfall for many years,\u201d Love says early in \u201cThis is Love,\u201d which will screen Thursday night at the Aspen Art Museum.<\/p>\n

Filmmakers John Alexander and JC Crew will be on-hand for a post-screening Q&A, as the documentary begins its educational and institutional release in Aspen.<\/p>\n

The film is a portrait of the artist and a devastating examination of how the music business has exploited Love.<\/p>\n

Along with gripping archival footage of Love onstage and in the studio, \u201cThis is Love\u201d includes interviews with luminaries like George Clinton and Mick Fleetwood (who also executive produced \u201cThis is Love\u201d) and the comedian Sinbad, all of them champions of Love\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Based throughout his career in Wichita, Kansas, Love has been playing regular hometown gigs since the 1960s, while falling prey to unscrupulous record executives on the coasts.<\/p>\n

The oldest of 17 siblings, Love roped in his brothers and sisters to perform with him as Rudy Love and the Love Family. As Love recalls, he decided to keep it in the family after he grew tired of teaching new backing bandmembers his songs. He leans on the family as his music and its profits are stolen. (The family legacy in the arts has continued with his niece Marsai Martin, who plays the precocious daughter Diane on the sitcom \u201cBlack-ish.\u201d)<\/p>\n

George Clinton calls the Love family \u201cthe real unsung heroes of the era\u201d in the film.<\/p>\n

While Love and his songs like \u201cLove Electricity\u201d deeply influenced \u201970s funk hit-makers like Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, he remained one of music\u2019s best-kept secrets until Jay-Z prominently sampled Love on \u201cSweet,\u201d from his 2007 \u201cAmerican Gangster\u201d album.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s still no household name, though this documentary may start changing that. Not that Love is looking for fame after seven decades playing music. As he puts it in the film: \u201cThe thing about me and fame is that we love and hate each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Documentary “This is Love,” about soul musician Rudy Love, will screen at the Aspen Art Museum on Thursday night.Courtesy photo You may not know his name or his songs, but you\u2019ll recognize funk and soul bandleader Rudy Love\u2019s sound from samples by contemporary hip-hop artists like Jay-Z and Dilated Peoples. A new documentary makes the […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 15:51:45","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}