Years before he became obsessed with creating "the Lawrence of Arabia of music documentaries," filmmaker Bernard MacMahon was just a young music fan in South London, hearing an album by Mississippi John Hurt for the first time. He remembers those late-Twenties folk-blues recordings as strangely intimate: "There didn't seem to be any filter between performer and me."
That was his
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: ‘American Epic’: Inside Jack White and Friends’ Obsessive Roots-Music Doc