A musical chestnut tucked into “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Blues fan Martin Scorsese must have had fun selecting the string band music, jazz and blues for his long period piece about the nearly erased history of “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Some of the music is diegetic, played in person or spun on a 78rpm record seen in the scene.

Then there’s this tune Scorsese heard a lot when he helped assemble the classic documentary “Woodstock.”

It’s an old song revived by Canned Heat as a ’60s hippy anthem. Here’s the 1928 version we hear in “Flower Moon.”

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