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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020 · Film · documentary · 96 min
Directed by Bill Flanagan, Mary Wharton
This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America—with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett.
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> Across Carter’s term, artists including Nelson, Charles Mingus, Loretta Lynn, Bob Dylan, Sarah Vaughan, Cecil Taylor, Linda Ronstadt (who had campaigned against Carter with her then-boyfriend Jerry Brown), the Staple Singers, Cher (and her then-boyfriend, Gregg Allman) and Tom T. Hall either visited or performed at the White House. Crosby, Stills and Nash once dropped by the place unannounced. Carter made time for them.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-09-09/jimmy-carter-president-white-house-willie-nelson-allman-brothers-documentary
‘Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President’ is well worth watching, even if (like me) this isn’t your favourite kind of music
Nonsense. There's a documentary about Jimmy Carter and pop musicians. [1] Bill Clinton plays sax. [2] Etc. The White House has been known to host concerts. [3] Presidents are people and people generally like music.
[1] https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/music/info-2020/jimmy-carter-rock-roll-president.html
[2] https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/saxophone/bill-clinton-saxophone/
[3] https://www.whitehousehistory.org/music-and-musical-performances-in-the-white-house-timeline