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"…On the night this
slice of supra-realism as screened at the Barbican, its scenes of
passionate romance and spine-tingling adventure were fabulously
augmented by the tear-jerking or rip-roaring tones of the Dodge
Brothers (who are not related, and do not live in Dodge City, but
play like they are both)."
Clive Sinclair, Times Literary Supplement |
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"The Dodge
Brothers swept into the Barbican Cinema on the 4th June, and with
their delectable accompaniment to the 1921 silent western White Oak,
made the opening gala of the 12th British Silent Film Festival a
night to remember. With twangy guitar riffs in the mould of Chet
Atkins or the UK’s legendary Bert Weedon, lashings of echo and
reverb, and accordion sounds which could have emanated from North
Carolina or the Appalachian mountains, their blend of country music
captured the essence of contemporary Americana as Oak Miller (played
by William S. Hart, one of cinema’s earliest cowboy heroes) battled
to right the wrongs done to his sister. It was a triumph."
Robert Rider,
Head of Cinema, The Barbican. |