Demme Interview

I smiled at this shout-out to Dan Bern in Richard Lieby's interview with Jonathan Demme in the Washington Post this morning:

You've always had great music in your movies. Name some songs on your iPod "most played" list.

Alejandro Escovedo's "Gravity/Falling Down Again." He was one of my composers on "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains." He's a Texas genius. I'm listening to Neil Young's new record like crazy. He's got an 18-minute song on it, "Ordinary People," and it's a masterwork. Emmylou Harris is in constant rotation on my iPod. Sister Carol East -- she had a pretty big part in "Something Wild," and was also in "Married to the Mob." Have you heard TV on the Radio? The lead singer, Tunde Adebimpe, plays the groom in the movie I'm doing now. Scribble down another name for me: Dan Bern. "Breathe." He wrote the "Ballad of Jimmy Carter" for the movie. There's another title of his, please listen to it: "Jerusalem." Then you can turn your kids on to these songs.

The whole interview is on the Washington Post website.