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Meatto. Editor, Purcell Carson. Cinematography,
Meatto and Ben Wolf. Sound, Dave Sinko and Meatto.
Music by Punch Brothers. Starring Chris Eldridge,
Greg Garrison, Paul Kowert, Noam Pikelny, Chris
Thile and Gabe Witcher. International Film Circuit,
Shaftway Productions, 2012. NR. 88 minutes.
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hris Thile, the obsessive genius
behind prog-bluegrass pioneers
Punch Brothers, fi rst picked up the
mandolin at age 5, and is now hailed by
many as the fi nest player in the world. In
Mark Meatto’s new documentary, How to
Grow a Band, there is scarcely any footage
of Thile without his instrument; he’s
always off in the corner, perfecting some
lickety-split chromatic run. At one point
in the fi lm, Punch Brother banjoist Noam
Pikelny recalls a family legend about his
colleague’s daunting dedication. “Thile
used to practice Paganini when he was
sitting on the toilet,” Pikelny says, adding
with a bemused smile: “Don’t waste time
while you’re in the bathroom. You could be
practicing.”
How to Grow a Band offers an intimate,
behind-the-curtains glimpse of the band
formulating, hashing out, rehearsing
and recording — in short, negotiating
— its challenging debut, Punch, a genre-
busting album centered on “The Blind
Leaving the Blind,” a four-movement,
45-minute classical bluegrass suite written
in the wake of Thile’s 2003 divorce. The
occasion is historic. With that formally
complex, technically diffi cult piece for
string quintet, Punch Brothers don’t simply
deconstruct the standard verse-chorus-
verse structure of most popular music; like
mad scientists, they seek to run bluegrass
through the crucible of classical music’s
ambitious reach, thereby birthing some
new, recombinant species of folk music.
The goal for Punch, according to
fi ddler Gabe Witcher, was nothing short
of “making music that hadn’t been made
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How to Grow a Band charts the rise of Punch Brothers
before” — to push the artistic envelope
through vision, innovation, guts and
genius. “And I really feel like this is
that,” Witcher adds, with less arrogance
than awe. The process, however, was not
without tension. Pop music is, at its core,
a deeply conservative art form, reluctant to
move beyond the familiar arc of the three-
minute radio single, and truly innovative
musicians — Wilco, Radiohead, Prince,
Fugazi — run a great risk whenever they
start tinkering with the formula.
How to Grow a Band is about that risk:
its costs and consequences, its ramifi cations
for the band and the audience. “I think that
people felt this was my fl ight of fancy that
everyone had to protect me from,” Thile
says at one point, a comment that captures
the anxiety surrounding the pursuit of artis-
tic vision. With unlimited access and using
only a single digital camera, Meatto plays
unobtrusive witness to the most intense of
creative processes, and it’s fascinating to
see the way the band struggles to fi nd equi-
librium. Is everyone all-in on this crazy
trip, with equal say and equal infl uence?
And what if, after taking what amounts to a
life’s pledge, it explodes?
For fans of Punch Brothers, the docu-
mentary proves a boon, full of extended
live footage, lengthy interviews with the
band and commentary from luminaries
such as Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Myer and former
Zep bassist turned hot producer John Paul
Jones. How to Grow a Band, however, is
not just a love letter to a great bluegrass
band. It’s also an engaging, thought-pro-
voking look at the timeless rigors of artistic
genesis — the battle to bridge the distance
between idea and object, while keeping a
semblance of purity intact — as well as a
testament to the incomprehensible persis-
tence of desire. It’s not just cheese: If you
work hard enough, and stay true to yourself,
you will get where you want to go.
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