The Wild West Bank Sound
movie - 57 min
Directed by Kevin Dragseth
Minneapolis’ West Bank neighborhood was once an epicenter of the music world. From the early 1960s, this perennial immigrant landing strip proved an irresistible draw for artists from far and wide, an ever-evolving cauldron of creativity and cultures. This film is a funky flashback, bursting at the seams with musical memories, all visualized with rare and rich archival photography, footage, and artistic ephemera. From household names to forgotten favorites, The Wild West Bank Sound comes alive in this multi-sensory trip through time.
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Cast
- Samira AliSelf - Public historian
- John BeachSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Eddie BergerSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Maury BernsteinSelf - Musician/Self - historian (archive footage)
- Sean BlackburnSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Bob BoveeSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Page BurkumSelf - The Cactus Blossoms
- David DanielsSelf - Poet
- Joe DemkoSelf - Willie & The Bees Musician
- Bob DouglasSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Mary Du ShaneSelf - Musician
Bob DylanSelf - Musician/Self - songwriter (archive footage)- Scott FultzSelf - Shangoya musician
- Jeff GaretzSelf - Musician
- Tony GloverSelf - Musician (archive footage) (as Tony Little Sun Glover)
- Cornbread HarrisSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Ann Charlotte HarveySelf - Musician
- Rena HausSelf - Musician
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- Bill HinkleySelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Dakota Dave HullSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Maurice JacoxSelf - Willie & The Bees Musician
- José JamesSelf - Willie & The Bees Musician
- Craig JohnsonSelf - Run Westy Run musician (archive footage) (as Run Westy Run)
- Prudence JohnsonSelf - Rio Nido Musician (archive footage)
Garrison KeillorSelf - Performer (archive footage)- John KoernerSelf - Musician (archive footage) (as Spider John Koerner)
Leo KottkeSelf - Musician (archive footage)- Judy LarsonSelf - Musician
- Gary LewisSelf - Run Westy Run musician (archive footage) (as Run Westy Run)
Thomas LiebermanSelf - Rio Nido musician (as Tom Lieberman)- Lazy Bill LucasSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Mary LundbergSelf - Coffeehouse Extempore former manager
- Eve MacLeishSelf - former staff at New Riverside Cafe/Self - Photographer
- Molly MaherSelf - Musician
- Wain McFarlaneSelf - Shangoya Bass (archive footage)
- Jessie MerrianSelf - Cedar Riverside Time Machine creator
- John MunsonSelf - Trip Shakespeare/Semisonic Musician
- Dan MurphySelf - Soul Asylum musician
- Willie MurphySelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Peter OstroushkoSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Warren ParkSelf - West Bank School of Music founder
- Charlie ParrSelf - Musician
- Charlie ParrSelf - Shangoya musician
- Marc S. PerlmanSelf - Run Westy Run musician (archive footage) (as Run Westy Run)
- Lance PollonaisSelf - Shangoya musician
Bonnie RaittSelf - Musician- Bruce RubensteinSelf - Filmmaker
- Scott SnyderSelf - Willie & The Bees musician
- Tim SparksSelf - Rio Nido Musician (archive footage)
- Butch ThompsonSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Jack TorreySelf - The Cactus Blossoms Musician
- Mark TrehusSelf - Treehouse Records founder
- Linda WilliamsSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Robin WilliamsSelf - Musician (archive footage)
- Dan WilsonSelf - Musician (archive footage)
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