[youtube id=”m3oqtijIEAA”] Tomorrow HBO will air the Dee Rees’directed Bessie, starring Queen Latifah as the late blues queen Bessie Smith. In this short video Nelson George narrates the lineage of Bessie Smith’s influence on popular music. Bessie airs tomorrow night on HBO at 8PM EST.Continue Reading
Get More: VH1 Rock Docs This is Nelson George’s Finding The Funk documentary about the origins of funk music. He talks to a variety of legendary funksters like George Clinton and Sly Stone to get to the bottome of the music that’s known for starting on the one.Continue Reading
[youtube id=”WD1oaBCmZWA”] Nelson George interviews D’Angelo for the Red Bull Music Academy 2014 lecture series. D’Angelo’s career, his mentorship under James Mtume and his new musical directions are a few of the topics they discussed at the Brooklyn Museum last night.Continue Reading
[youtube]sAMkLQWR_lU[/youtube] Nelson George’s “Finding The Funk” is narrated by Questlove of The Roots and will be shown at SXSW this year. George Clinton, Sly Stone and Nona Hendryx are some of the artists interviewed about the origins of funk.Continue Reading