TRACE BUNDY’s RENDITION OF “WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME”
Many wonderful serendipitous events have occurred during the production of this documentary. One of them involves music. The entire time that we were in Urique filming events leading up to the 2012 race we were listening to music that we brought with us. We would often play music on our laptops as we screened footage from the day. There is nothing like gathering around the glowing screen with cold beers in hand, watching fresh footage of running in the beauty of las barrancas with some good tunes in the background!
One of the musicians whose music seemed to come up in our playlists quite often was Trace Bundy, an amazing finger style guitarist. His instrumental guitar music fit quite nicely with our images of running in the canyons. It became the staple ‘go to’ music that we used throughout much of our early production and editing.
When we returned to Seattle and began working further on the movie we had to consider what music we would actually use in the film. As we were thinking about this, our Producer just happened to notice that Trace Bundy was playing live in Seattle that weekend!
We contacted Trace, were invited to the show, and met with him at our studio the next day. After seeing our film, Trace expressed an interest in collaboration. Thus, that is how we came to include the music of Trace Bundy in our film.
One more thing… Did I mention that Trace is from Boulder, CO – where Micah True lived? How’s that for synchronicity?
-Sterling