Big Easy Express

This article is about the music film. For corresponding tour, see Railroad Revival Tour.

Big Easy Express is a music film by the three folk and americana bands: Old Crow Medicine Show, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Mumford & Sons. This Emmett Malloy film follows the three bands on their joint April 2011 Railroad Revival Tour. The film won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Music Film.

Big Easy Express
Big Easy Express Movie Poster
Directed by	Emmett Malloy
Produced by	Bryan Ling Tim Lynch Mike Luba
Starring	Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Mumford & Sons Old Crow Medicine Show
Cinematography	Giles Dunning
Edited by	Matt Murphy
Music by	Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show
Distributed by	S2BN Films
Release dates	March 17, 2012 (2012-03-17) (SXSW) June 26, 2012 (2012-06-26) (United States - iTunes)
Running time	66 Minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Release and Reception

The film debuted on March 17th, the final night of the 2012 SXSW film festival to positive critical reviews.^[1][2] The film also won the Headliner Audience Award at SXSW that year.^[3][4]

Despite the commercial and critical success of the featured bands, Mumford & Sons had received two Grammy nominations the previous year, while recent albums by Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros had charted in the top 100 of the Billboard 200, Big Easy Express did not follow a traditional theatrical release strategy. Instead, the film employed a "running-in-reverse" distribution model, launching first on iTunes in 50 countries on June 26, 2012, followed by a DVD release on July 24, and concluding with a theatrical release several months later.^[5] Following its digital release, the film continued to receive favorable reviews.^[6]

In 2013, Big Easy Express was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Music Film.^[7]