Featuring: The Alabama Shakes, The Americans, Ana Gabriel, Ashley Monroe, The Avett Brothers, Beck Bettye Lavette, Bobby Ingano, Auntie Geri Kuhia, & Charlie Kaleo Oyama, Elton John, Frank Fairfield Jack White, Jerron Paxton, Los Lobos, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Nas, Pokey LaFarge, Raphael Saadiq, Rhiannon Giddons, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell, Taj Mahal, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard

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At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unknown voices of everyday folk.

The recordings they made captured the countrys diversity artistically, ethnically, geographically, and economically. As told by music pioneers, their families and eyewitnesses to the era, we travel back in time to the 'Big Bang' of modern popular music, to the first time America heard itself. Everyday Americans heard their own music for the very first time, pure and un- adulterated this was a democratic revolution that would reverberate around the world.

In the words of the films narrator, Robert Redford, 'This is Americas greatest untold story.

Over a decade, two filmmakers from the UK, Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, along with musician Duke Erikson, have been piecing together the great missing link (until now!) of Americas musical history, crisscrossing the USA in search of the first recorded music artists of the 1920s and their descendants. This is the first time this story has ever been told, and its also the last time this story can be told before everyone who was there is gone. The oldest person interviewed was a 103 year-old Hawaiian musician, with the filmmakers also capturing the last interviews with Robert Lockwood Jr., Homesick James and Honeyboy Edwards. Its astonishing. American Epic is a trilogy of films that explores how America was democratized by the advent of electrical sound recording in the 1920s. This is what created the Big Bang of Country, the Big Bang of RnB, and enabled a raft of other music to be recorded (including Hawaiian and Hopi!) that was a huge influence on musicians like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin, to name a few.

MacMahon is the director, writer and creator of the three films that comprise the critically acclaimed musical documentary trilogy "American Epic" and "The American Epic Sessions". These films have been selected to show at prestigious film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, BFI London Film Festival, IDFA, Nashville, and Sydney International Film Festival, among others.

MacMahon is the co-author of a companion book to the films that will be published by Simon & Schuster and the producer of a series of historic music releases on Sony Music.

More about American Epic
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unknown voices of everyday folk.

The recordings they made captured the countrys diversity artistically, ethnically, geographically, and economically. As told by music pioneers, their families and eyewitnesses to the era, we travel back in time to the 'Big Bang' of modern popular music, to the first time America heard itself. Everyday Americans heard their own music for the very first time, pure and un- adulterated this was a democratic revolution that would reverberate around the world.

In the words of the films narrator, Robert Redford, 'This is Americas greatest untold story.

Over a decade, two filmmakers from the UK, Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, along with musician Duke Erikson, have been piecing together the great missing link (until now!) of Americas musical history, crisscrossing the USA in search of the first recorded music artists of the 1920s and their descendants. This is the first time this story has ever been told, and its also the last time this story can be told before everyone who was there is gone. The oldest person interviewed was a 103 year-old Hawaiian musician, with the filmmakers also capturing the last interviews with Robert Lockwood Jr., Homesick James and Honeyboy Edwards. Its astonishing. American Epic is a trilogy of films that explores how America was democratized by the advent of electrical sound recording in the 1920s. This is what created the Big Bang of Country, the Big Bang of RnB, and enabled a raft of other music to be recorded (including Hawaiian and Hopi!) that was a huge influence on musicians like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin, to name a few.