Seven months ago, rock photographer & filmmaker Danny Clinch teamed up with Sqaurespace to release a 22-minute documentary about the rise of Texas-based soul revivalist Leon Bridges, who plays a can't miss show tomorrow.
CL EVENTS CALENDAR: LEON BRIDGES AT RUTH ECKERD HALL 09.14.16
On the eve of the 27-year-old’s Bay area debut at Ruth Eckerd Hall, we couldn’t resist re-sharing the film, which is a quiet, introspective look into Bridges’s life as a working artist. Admittedly, the CL camp was curious about how it really happened, and we were bummed upon getting denied an interview with the singer. Bridges sheds a lot of light on everything in This Home.
“They way I dress is life for me. People assume that when they see somebody bring back an old sound, and he’s on a big label, it’s something like the perfect package the label created,” Bridges says at one point. “They don’t know the back story.”
See how a pair of high waist wranglers changed the course for this once-in-a-generation talent below. Get more info on the show via local.cltampa.com.
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This article appears in Sep 8-15, 2016.