Dust Radio | A Movie About Chris Whitley

[peacefistmultimedia]

A great artist!



[LauraHamiltonMusic]

I live with Chris' father, Jerry. He is always talking about him and collecting his music. They look so alike that it is crazy! I wish I could have met him, but I know that one day we willl meet. RIP Chris <3

[summerfox149]

FOR CHRIS WHITLEY, I REMEMBER how I said to him at the bar I am your oldest living fan and I've been a fan for a long, long time how he smiled tired, crookedly, thanks and climbed back to the stage. How I laid myself hard against the walls at The Double Door and Martyr's for the shaking, for the bone-deep wracking shakes and how later my friend said you know, the walls don't really vibrate. And how they never will again.

[lancekeltner]

My favorite record Artist..

[mrjonnyangel]

I forget you every day Chris.

[poopiedartz]

PUT THIS MOVIE OUT ALREADY!!!! He was amazing and made music that the cherubs in heaven now play to him!

[JoustingDefender]

I miss this fucking guy every day.

[wetmakeup]

I can never express enough gratitude for what his music has given me, made me feel, and touched within me. From the first time I stumbled on his music in a club, I had to shake his hand and thank him that night.

[Flevable]

R.I.P. Big sky country is one of the most beautiful songs ever

[stubsmagee]

one person obviously doesn't get "it"

[seelanne]

Oh man, Chris has left (i heard it just by accident............ a great musician ................. RIP. (Does anybody knows what music ist that in the beginning and the end ?).

[stuft17]

@seelanne Cut the Cards from Reiter In

[seelanne]

@stuft17 : thx a lot

[thewhiteelephant]

Enough with the teasing, is this thing ever gonna see the light of day???

[TheMichaelseymour]

best new LP of 1991 ? Bullshit - one of the best LPs of ALL time .

[52zernial]

it's been too long now- just release the film.......no more excuses.



[NouvoRich]

I miss you Chris every f. day...

[funkymonk70]

Please if there is a GOD get this movie made and out to see...please....please....plea­se.

[TheShadybrainfarm]

youre forever woven into the fabric of my musical being, thank you

[keepcalmycarryon]

Hmm.

[lochapa]

Not to many people get to live life following no rules and truely expirience freedom.

[BuckeyeInNC]

looking to see some of these performances on leno, letterman and arsenio as youtube vids PLEASE SOMEBODY....

[MrWittr]

Chris is still in my heart and ears .. The guy was magic.. pure poetry and magic!

[NetFilmMusicDotCom]

Where is this movie! Get this on Netflix immediately!

[zr24X4ROCKS]

I first saw chris at waterllo village in stanhope new jersey at the horde festival. He was doing the DIN album. and he tore my soul apart ,and I think he stole the show, I've been a chris whitley fan since

[bucksofbourbon]

where can we buy this doc??? anyone know??

[gildamx]

It's hard to live.

RIP Chris

[mauijaystar]

Chris, Chris, I would have given you anything you asked for. So many of us would have: shelter, money, support, love, peace, anything. We would have given you this gladly. That you died the way you did--we knew the only way out of this world for you was burning, that your body would burn because your soul was a flame.

But it broke our hearts, lovely man. It broke our fucking hearts anyway.

[stanculler]

@mauijaystar That's the most perfect thing I've ever read.

[mauijaystar]

@stanculler You are too kind. It's true--the man seemed like a flame anchored barely to the earth. I've never seen a burning like that, a haunting, such a beautiful haunting that must cost only everything.

I'll never understand how we all failed him so badly.

Then again, he was a dancing flame. How do you keep a dancing flame alive without burning in it, too?

B.B. King said that Stevie Ray Vaughn didn't PLAY, he CHANNELED. Something like that was true for Chris.

[citrix99301]

@mauijaystar Amen.  RIP Chris. I wish we could have borne some of your pain for you

[witchman1]

I new chris, it wasnt this bad. He died, from smoking, but his life was full of, what you see.

[thewhiteelephant]

@witchman1 My point exactly. I may be totally wrong here, but from what I know, I would conclude that his life wasn't as bad as this short trailer makes it out to be.

[hijodejuliete]

I guess a movie about some singer's rise, fall an descent into alcohol's inferno can be sold better to distributors than a movie about one of the last true art makers of that thing called popular music. Ok, they have their 'independent', preachy and self indulgent contracultural movie. We'll keep his records.

[FrancescoBonfanti77]

fuck! i didn't know he was gone... that's a real crap news for me. it makes me sad. i love his music directions and his personality.

life sucks, then you die...

r.i.p. chris

see you later

[tashi351]

R.I.P my brother , you have bought my soul peace thru your music xox

[kolbpilot]

Thanks for posting. I liked it.

[stevefitchvideo]

I'm glad that SOMEONE made a documentary about Mr. Whitley. His gigs were some of the greatest moments of my life. I don't know whose opinion to share of the scenes with his being drunk and somber, but more non-artists should be educated in what some artists - too often the "real" ones - go through. I am ambivalent about how documentaries on musicians incline people to "appreciate" the music in terms of the "content" of the films, but dammit - please - more people should hear this man's music.

[tonykendrick]

Real life is not pretty and I don't think this will be disrespectful. Chris Whitley is the definition of what "artist" means. He will live forever.

[MsNancyGray]

@tonykendrick agreed 1000%

[thewhiteelephant]

To be fair, I obviously have not seen the documentary, but I find it very disrespectful that they chose to show footage of Chris while he was very inebriated. I hope I am wrong here, and maybe there is a reason they felt it a need to include that in the film, but I don't like the looks of them showing him in such bad shape with a bottle like that.

[dalisman]

@thewhiteelephant from the website: "In mid-October 2005, after 30 years of traveling and playing, Chris Whitley, battling complications from lung cancer, cancelled the remainder of tour dates in support of then his latest record, Soft Dangerous Shores...In mid-October 2005, after 30 years of traveling and playing, Chris Whitley, battling complications from lung cancer, cancelled the remainder of tour dates in support of then his latest record, Soft Dangerous Shores...[continued]

[dalisman]

@thewhiteelephant He was estranged from his lover of many years and unclear of what his future held. I sat with him in New York throughout this time. The result is straight forward and intensely real. A sobering portrait of a great and widely forgotten about artist near his end; critically heralded and touted in the 90’s, now destitute and estranged."

Maybe this answers your question. All I have to say to this is...whoa. This could be unchartered territory for a film, about an artist worthy

[thewhiteelephant]

@dalisman Yeah, I had read that in the website. Again, I'm not against the documentary, but I hope the documentary is much more than "just" the filmmaker sitting with him through those last few weeks of his life. In other words, I hope it celebrates the span of his ENTIRE life/career as opposed to those last painful weeks of his life.

[dalisman]

@thewhiteelephant Well, from the trailer using all of that other footage, it appears that way.

[cjstewart7599]

I don't think it is disrespectful. It was part of who he was. It was alive in his music. I don't think it was anything he ever really tried to hide. If anything it is a testament to the life he endured and shows how beauty can rise from the darkest places of a man's soul and make that darkness worthwhile. Did you ever even listen to him? If so, I would hope that you would understand.

[thewhiteelephant]

@cjstewart7599 Sorry about the late reply, I just saw this. To answer your question, and to somewhat qualify myself, I began listening to Chris when he put out "Living WIth The Law". I used to work at Musicland back then and had the opportunity to listen to all the "new" artists. I also saw him live a few times, and met him and chatted with him 3 times, all very memorable experiences. I even gave my daughter the middle name "Trixie".

[thewhiteelephant]

@cjstewart7599 Each of the times that I talked to him he always went out of his way to be kind. He even gave me a few promotional copies of a few singles prior to their release. So yes, to answer your question, I did listen to him. The point of my original comment was that in all the interviews I ever read prior to his death, he acknowledged his demons/struggles but it was also evident that he wanted to beat them. In that context, this short trailer is very painful to watch.

[thewhiteelephant]

@cjstewart7599 I prefer to remember him the way he was in those short meetings that we talked. He was very upbeat, very optimistic, kind, and seemingly very happy about his life and his future. I'll make all judgements about the video after I see it. I think we can all agree that Chris was/is extremely special to all of us.

[cjstewart7599]

@thewhiteelephant I hear you, and I really didn't mean any disrespect... It was just that the pain and searching in his music was what I related to the most and so, I guess I created this image of him as a tortured soul in my mind. Unfortunately, I never had the incredible honor of meeting him so I guess I can't honestly say who he really was, only what he seemed to me through his music, which to me sounded much more at peace and content on jhis last few releases.

[cjstewart7599]

@thewhiteelephant Now how do we fill the big empty space that his death has left in the music of our souls?

[22rawrrawr]

this made me cry.

[crashingman71]

i can't stand it

[roccotanto]

come on and get this movie DONE, we want to see it!

[SL1991]

hey does anybody know the song that was playing at the beggining while the camera passed beneath those wintery looking trees? i loved it, sounded so sweet, gospel tinged. im a huge fan of chris and i'm still working my way through his albums and i want to buy the one with that song?

help? :)

[flemingfamily1]

@SL1991 : The song is "Cut the Cards" and it is on his album, Reiter In.

hope that helps you out!

[sphooky]

@SL1991

It's called 'Cut the cards'.

Off of the album 'Reiter In' by him and the bastard club.

[scalesinblue]

It's June 2010 ~ waiting...patiently waiting...

[jimspruell]

I really hope this movie portrays him correctly. He was a genius. A true revolutionary. And, yet, a really nice man.

[grdengal64]

'Dust Radio' --perfect title; my favorite from the album although I love them all. Every time I listen to this album, I fall in love again with it's haunting beauty and I always think how much talent was lost when he left this world.

[Babaziba]

I want to see this yesterday! Chris was amazing.

[zoobly3]

I will love this movie and look after it as if it were my only child. Chris, you are a God. You turned my world upside down man. You put me back in touch with my heart at a time when I needed it, and your music was the antidote for the heartache and an explosion of light against the darkness. You my friend, my brother, are so sorely missed, but I know I will see you again. No question.

[broadpath]

I want the movie!

[gennargentu83]

LOVE YOU CHRIS.

[ResponseAudio]

Thank you!

Looking forward to the movie.