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A Documentary by Don DiNicola

Featuring artists--from Victoria Williams and Eric Burdon to Gram Parsons and Gram Rabbit--who've made the high-desert community of Joshua Tree, CA, their home. The film paints a portrait of life in the desert, far from big music industry, while examining our notions of success and failure.



I Hear "Joshua Tree" and I think "Gram Parsons" and very little more. But not after Nowhere Now. The film turned me on to a community that is making music mainly for music's sake--mainstream and commercialism be damned. Now I can see what attracted Parsons and everyone else: a beautiful locale and artistic freedom.
--Jim Bessman