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American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

Name: American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
Genre: Documentary, Musical
Cast: Alan Lomax

1990 1 season 5 eps

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58 min

S1 · E1 · Jul 6, 1990

Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now Episode 1

A celebration of New Orleans’ musical culture — from its piano bars and barrelhouses to brass bands and street parades, with their colorful, riotous, and symbolic second lines, in which the community plays an essential part in the performance. Archival film footage, photographs, interviews with and performances by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Mardi Gras Indians, and Danny Barker tell the story of the New Orleans tradition.

57 min

S1 · E2 · Jul 13, 1990

Cajun Country: Don't Drop the Potato Episode 2

The bayous of Louisiana have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural gumbo. Cajun Country investigates the Cajuns’ roots in Western France, visits their cattle drives, horse races, and fais do-dos in rural Louisiana, and listens to the salty tales and raunchy songs of its black, white, and Indian music-makers.

58 min

S1 · E3 · Jul 20, 1990

The Land Where the Blues Began Episode 3

Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long explore the enduring African-American performance traditions of the Mississippi Delta. Featuring bluesmen R.L. Burnside and Jack Owens; tall-tale tellers, fife and drum bands, and diddley-bow players; and former prisoners, railroad workers, and roustabouts singing field hollers, work chants, and levee camp songs. (re-edited version of a 1979 film)

57 min

S1 · E4 · Jul 27, 1990

Appalachian Journey Episode 4

Investigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendants of Scotch-Irish settlers of the Southern Appalachian mountains. Preachers, fiddlers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life. Performances by Tommy Jarrell; Janette Carter; Ray and Stanley Hicks; Frank Proffitt, Jr.; Sheila Kay Adams; and Ray Fairchild, the man reputed to be the fastest banjo-picker in the world.

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58 min

S1 · E5 · Aug 3, 1990

Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old Episode 5

Examining the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. Stories told by Janie Hunter (80) of Johns Island, SC; ballads sung by ex-coal miner and union organizer Nimrod Workman (91), of Chatteroy, WV; fiddle tunes and tales of moonshining and feuds from Tommy Jarrell (83) of Toast, NC; and footage from the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, AL, in which people of all ages gather to sing old-time shape-note hymnody.

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American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

Season 1

Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now Episode 1

Cajun Country: Don't Drop the Potato Episode 2

The Land Where the Blues Began Episode 3

Appalachian Journey Episode 4

Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old Episode 5

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Season 1

Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now Episode 1

Cajun Country: Don't Drop the Potato Episode 2

The Land Where the Blues Began Episode 3

Appalachian Journey Episode 4

Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old Episode 5

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