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Field Hollers Yield Dollars is an exciting new podcast about the evolution of Rhythm & Blues into Rock and Roll in the United States. Featuring Jim Wood of DevlinPix' upcoming music-comedy Super Star Dumb, this podcast is an informative, entertaining look back at our nation's storied musical history:

Blues was authored by America’s slaves, and grew into Rhythm & Blues as musical technology advanced. The underground “black music for black audiences” was unearthed by a handful of hip Caucasians, most of them smelling cash and none more endowed of this sense than Sam Phillips. Sam whitewashed the blues, brought us Elvis, and ushered in a mega-millions era of “Rock & Roll” that ensured the death of R&B and forever merged artistic integrity with tin-eared marketing muscle.

Jim Wood has 5000 R&B records, and he recounts the bittersweet tale of the birth of “America’s music” with opinion and dialog as bold as the best Wynonie Harris records.

Listen to Field Hollers Yield Dollars now at the iTunes Store and PodOmatic!

DOWNLOAD: Title Card (Full Res) | Photo of Jim Wood (Full Res) | Press Release (DOC) (PDF)

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"A pop cultural phenonmenon!"-Robert Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"The drama is always full-flame. So is the comedy." - Film Pick of the Week, LA Weekly

Emmy award-winner Paul Devlin gives you a ringside seat at the most compelling verbal slugfest of the century. SlamNation chronicles The National Poetry Slam - the Olympics of verse, in which spoken word artists (the adrenaline junkies of the literary world) compete fiercely in battle poetic.

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Directed by Kevin Fitzgerald (aka DJ Organic), Produced by Henry-Alex Rubin (Murderball),
and Produced and Edited by Paul Devlin.

"A rousing education in an art form that is too often misunderstood."
- The New York Times

"This fascinating documentary offers a rare glimpse into communities of gifted street rhymers who challenge and support one another in inspiring, creative ways."
- Jon Matsumoto, Variety

"Affectionate, wildly entertaining...Boasts a loose, spontaneous, free-flowing feel that's perfectly suited to the sharp-witted improvisation and brash gamesmanship at its subject's heart."
- Nathan Rabin, The Onion

Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme explosively documents the world of improvisational hip-hop, providing an authentic look into the life, music, and history of this undergound culture.  Packed with rare and archival footage of some of the most amazing hip-hop MC's ever to bless the mic!

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Slammin’ is now available as part of the special double disk set of SlamNation.
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Paul Devlin’s fictional short stars James McCaffrey, (co-star of Rescue Me) as Tony O’Neil a talented, but very distracted neon artist. 

Tony loses everything he touches.  And if he's not careful, that includes his girlfriend Corrin.  Desperate, Tony seeks the help of Shah, a strange and powerful mystic who has learned to use science to achieve spiritual goals.

Shah's newest invention is a pair of extraordinary glasses.  Try them on, think of an object that's lost and in a moment, it can be seen.  The glasses need field-testing and Tony is the perfect subject.

At first, Tony is back in control, finding all the things he's lost.  But the glasses are more complex than he ever imagined.  Tony is about to discover that sometimes, the worst part of losing things, is finding them...

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