Mel Bay

Format: DVD
Version: Concert and Documentary DVD

The Folksong Revival was a dynamic cultural event with its origins in the early 20th century. By the mid-1960s, it had captured American popular music, inspired a generation of folklorists, and served to reintroduce the United States to its vernacular musical roots. Fortunately some of the legendary artists of the 1920s and 1930s were rediscovered and performed at festivals and concerts. This DVD illustrates well the mingling of old and new within the framework of old-time, cajun, blues and folk music. It focuses on traditional instruments, i.e. the ancient mouth bow, autoharp, fiddle, banjo, accordion, diddley-bow, as well as the piano and guitar.

Titles include:

• CLARK KESSINGER
  • Sally Ann Johnson
  • Poca River Blues
  • Wednesday Night Waltz
  • Billy In The Lowgrounds
  • Leather Britches
  • Chicken Reel
• KILBY SNOW
  • Kilby talks about learning the autoharp
  • Shady Grove
  • Please Don't Take Advantage of Me
  • Wildwood Flower
  • Close By
• JIMMY DRIFTWOOD
  • Jimmy talks about the Mouth-Box
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Galloping Horse
• FIDDLE GROUP
  • Turkey In The Straw
• COON CREEK GIRLS
  • East Virginia Blues
  • Sight Of a Pretty Girl
• CANRAY FONTENOT & ALPHONSOS, BOIS SEC ARDOIN
  • Eunice Two Step
  • Bon Soir Moreau
  • Lacassine Special
  • Jeune Gens de la Campagne
  • Les Barres de la Prison
• ED and LONNIE YOUNG and THE FIFE & DRUM BAND
  • Oree
  • Ed Young talks about playing the fife
  • Snake Dance
• JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL & GROUP
  • Get Right Church
• COMPTON JONES
  • Working On The Railroad
• NAPOLEON STRICKLAND
  • Roll and Tumble Blues
  • Bottle Up and Go
• GLEN ROY FAULKNER
  • Bo-Diddley Blues
  • When I Lay My Burden Down
• MOSE VINSON
  • Blues Jumped The Rabbitt
  • Roll and Tumble Blues
• JOHN (PIANO RED) WILLIAMS
  • Roll and Tumble Blues
• BOOKER T. LOW
  • Roll and Tumble Blues