SXSW FILM REVIEW: The architect of rock & roll gets a detailed but thin biography.
How did Richard Penniman, the third of 12 children born to a preacher/bootlegger in Macon, Georgia at the height of segregation, become one of the first rock & roll stars? That's the question asked and somewhat answered byWriting a history of rock & roll without a long chapter on Little Richard would be heresy, and this SXSW-selected CNN production does everything it can to remind the music world that he was a lot more than the guy that wrote"Tutti Frutti.
is most fascinating when it goes deep into his formative years, and the influences of truly obscure figures like Escuerita and Billy Wright . Yet the further into his life the documentary goes, the less insightful it becomes. Where it works best is as a tick tock history of his life and career, putting into context how he made the jump from the Chitlin' Circuit to the hit parade and Vegas runs. His ubiquity in the early days of rock & roll and his influence is undeniable, as sections on important eras like his first UK tour describe and his recurrent resurgences all tell a fascinating story in their own right.
Moreover, that accelerated timeline also gets in the way of any real analysis of his own self-destructive tendencies and the bitterness that swallowed him up in his later years. It glosses over how he constantly fled"the Devil's music" and then came back whenever preaching the Gospel didn't pay the bills.
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