"Director: Robert Elfstrom"

• Johnny Cash - The Man, His World, His Music | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This has the unmistakeable whiff of opportunism about it­-there is no structure, no narration, nothing by way of accompanying information, and much of the concert footage looks like it was filmed by someone whose other eye was engaged reading the instruction manual for the camera. Despite--or, just maybe, because of--these limitations, it offers some genuine revelations of its subject. And, in fairness, the concert footage that is filmed properly is marvellous. The material collected here was apparently filmed in America in the late 60s, and offers a series of snapshots of Cash on one of his famously interminable tours. He is shown playing to audiences of fans, maximum security prisoners and feather-clad Native American dignitaries, and he is shown away from the stage, playing cards on the tour bus, jamming with friends and further reinforcing his then-unfashionable interest in Native American issues with a visit to the site of the Wounded Knee massacre. Also of interest are the other performers that wander through this random travelogue: Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, duetting with him on "Jackson"; Cash's lead guitarist, Carl Perkins, taking the spotlight to sing his creation "Blue Suede Shoes"; and, best of all, Cash, grinning from ear to ear and quite unabashedly overawed, recording a glorious duet of Billy Edd Wheeler's "Blistered" with an insouciant, gum-chewing Bob Dylan. --Andrew Mueller

• Johnny Cash | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Johnny Cash - The Man His World His Music presents a unique portrait of Johnny Cash. Shot over slightly less than a year the film covers the period between the mixing session for 'Land Of Israel' a track from Cash's spiritial LP Holy Land in the final weeks of 1968 to the Country Music Association awards ceremony in the early autumn of 1969.

• Pete Seeger: A Song And A Stone | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-8.29 (-51.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in 1972 this biographical documentary follows folk musician-activist Pete Seeger over the course of eighteen months showing him in concert interviews and previously filmed footage. Includes his performances of songs that he either wrote or rediscovered and that were made famous by other singers including Where Have All the Flowers Gone and Turn Turn Turn. Also features Johnny Cash Don McLean Rev FD Kirkpatrick Lester Flatt Toshi Seeger Charles Seeger and more. The film begins with his breakthrough television appearance on The Johnny Cash Show after seventeen years of being blacklisted from radio and television due to his refusal to testify for the House of Un-American Activities Committee in the mid-1950s. Johnny Cash who once called Seeger the finest American and patriot I know relates the opposition he had to overcome to have Seeger as a guest on his show. Seeger is shown singing several of his own songs as well as those of others among them a song written by his protégé Don McLean. Seeger is also seen with his contemporaries musicians such as Lester Flatt and Rev. F. D. Kirkpatrick. Appearing in the film are Seeger's wife Toshi and his father Charles an eminent musicologist. It also shows him at home with his family and participating in protest demonstrations among other things. In addition to being America's best-loved folksinger and an untiring environmentalist Pete Seeger is a national treasure. He has been at the forefront of the labour movement the struggle for Civil Rights the peace and anti-war movements and the fight for a clean world. He has been a beacon for hope for millions of people all over the world.