What begins with a creaky rendition of 'The Star Spangled Banner' and the firing of a freshly rolled number unfolds into a multilayered examination of what it means to be American. Director Justin Kreutzmann brings us an insightful, copacetic-minded snapshot of this fertile new collaboration for battered-but-unbroken hippy musical lifers Todd Snider, Dave Schools, Neal Casal, Chad Staehly, Duane Trucks and Jesse Aycock. Mixing intimate concert performances, road scenes, personal tales, and studio footage, The First Waltz arrives at a crucial moment to remind us that Jerry Garcia is as important as Ben Franklin and that rock 'n' roll is as much a birthright as The Constitution.