Bill Moyer's PBS Journal & "Playing for Change" by Mark Johnson

Here's PBS correspondent Bill Moyers talking about producer and co-director Mark Johnson's remarkable documentary Playing for Change. The video has an incredible, trans-National rendition of "Stand By Me" presented through different cultures and different musicians ranging all the way from Santa Monica, California, to Russia and France.

Johnson's documentary deals with the subject of the transformative power that music holds in people's hearts and lives, even in the face of our nation's and the world's devisive religions and politics. "Playing for Change" delivers a creative and powerful message.

Moyers has been doing fantastic writing, reporting, and journalism for decades, and this is yet another fine example. "Playing for Change" is from October of 2008. It is informative, dramatic, and reflective of the essence of music, people, and life around the world during the first decade of the twenty-first century.