While at the Sundance Film Festival this week, John Popper
will appear at a roundtable discussion and offer up some
tales from the road on the VH1 feature
"Storytellers". This event will be webcast live on
VH1.com this Thursday, January 27th. From VH1.com:
On January 27 VH1.com presents the first-ever,
Webcast-only live Storytellers from the Sundance Film
Festival! In honor of the fest, this multi-artist
performance features musicians whose work has impacted
both music and film. In another Storytellers first,
online users are invited to email questions to the
artists. The queries will be addressed between songs -
this time you can ask about all the topics you're
interested in! Film and music have always worked hand in
hand. Who could imagine The Graduate without Simon and
Garfunkel, or Pulp Fiction without Dick Dale's
twanged-out guitar? Rock 'n' roll and cinema have been
intertwined since Bill Haley rocked around the clock in
Blackboard Jungle. Each year Sundance underscores that
connection.
Aimee Mann's powerful songs not only make up the
soundtrack, but inspired much of the narrative to Paul
Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia." Lisa Loeb rose
from the college coffeehouse circuit to superstardom on
the crest of the love song "Stay," a
cornerstone of the Gen-X classic "Reality
Bites." Blues Traveler's frontman John Popper put
down his harmonica and narrated a film featured at this
year's Sundance, in addition to recording the soundtrack
for the hilarious sleeper "Kingpin." Dwight
Yoakam has done his share of acting as well. His
performance in "Slingblade" contained a twang
and grit equal to his very hot country songs.