Each month, the Jefferson Street Sound Museum offers Nashville music fans many programs. Among this month’s special features is a screening of the wonderful film The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South. This features the band Coyote Motel, but it isn’t your standard production, or simply an expanded music video.
Instead, it’s a combination history, memoir and cosmic/psychedelic experience with 10 spotlight songs and stories that examine some of the great tales and things to see along the American South’s three great rivers: the Mississippi, the Cumberland and the Tallahatchie. For those unfamiliar with the Coyote Motel musical presentation, it’s quite unique. The group features Ted Drozdowski on vocals and guitars; Sean Zywick on bass; Kyra Lachelle Curenton on drums and backing vocals; Luella on vocals, guitar and percussion; and Laurie Hoffman on theremin and glockenspiel. While their foundational sound is blues, they definitely delve into many other styles in an edgy, unpredictable and engaging manner. The film pivots off that stylistic expansion, and its combination of elements reflects the group’s broad performance scope, something especially illuminated through the cinematic context.
7 p.m. at the Jefferson Street Sound Museum
2004 Jefferson St.
