June 23, 2015

Appalachian Journey by Alan Lomax


Alan Lomax
Filmmaker: Alan Lomax
Producer: Mike Dibb, Penny Forster
Cinematographer: Jim Brown, Nicholas Echeverria
Sound: Jack Gordon, Robert Zieniewicz
Editing: Mark Tobin, Howard Sharp with Jenny Campbell
Copyright: 1991, Association for Cultural Equity
Distributor: Media_Generation

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont. Narrated by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity’s Alan Lomax Archive channel on YouTube additionally streams outtakes from this film: other strong performances by Sheila Kay Adams, Dellie Norton, and Cas Wallin, Lawrence Eller, the Hickses, Algia Mae Hinton and John Dee Holeman, Tommy Jarrell, John Doodle”Thrower, and Nimrod Workman.

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