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The universal appeal of this flick is not just in the music and musicians it showcases (Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Clapton, Dylan), but in the fact that it is a documentary of what was (and sorta still is) rumored to be the last performance of The Band.

To the list of wonderful things we can thank the late, great indie band Guided By Voices, add guitarist/songwriting Doug Gillard. Musically, Gillard's style hews closely to the skewed, British Invasion-obsessed guitar pop of his old band. But, minus the towering weirdness of GBV frontman Robert Pollard, the tunes are more straightforward (and, dare we say, intelligible) without being any less catchy.