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Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass (2012)

Directed by Alan Lomax

Documentary, Music · 35m

In the early 1960s, when Greenwich Village was bursting with a folk music revival, the Friends of Old Time Music made it their mission to introduce urban audience to some of the legends of pre-war American traditional music. After a 1961 series of concerts featuring Roscoe Holcomb, Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson, Alan Lomax invited the artists and a who’s who of the folk revival back to his West 3rd Avenue apartment for an impromptu song swap. Filming was arranged on the fly and a raw, many-layered evocation of the art and attitude of the period emerges from the footage, with some of the biggest names of the era, old timers and revivalists alike: Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Jean Ritchie, Ernie Marrs, Peter LeFarge, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Guy Carawan,the Greenbriar Boys, and the New Lost City Ramblers.

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Cast

Alan Lomax Self Memphis Slim Self
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Willie Dixon Self Jean Ritchie Self Jack Elliott Self

Crew

Director
Alan Lomax
Director of Photography
George Pickow
Editor
Anna Lomax Wood
Producer
Alan Lomax, George Pickow, Jean Ritchie

Details

Release date
2012-06-19
Runtime
35m
Genres
Documentary, Music
Original language
EN
Countries
United States of America