Clog Dancing On The Porch

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Way back in 1964, New York filmmaker, David Hoffman was headed down with his new 16mm hand help camera (weight 49 lbs!) to spend three weeks driving the backcountry around Madison County, North Carolina, in the center of Appalachia, with the 82 year old founder of the pioneer Asheville Mountain Music and Dance Festival, Bascom Lamar Lunsford. The resulting film, "Bluegrass Roots" lets you hear and experience the hard scrabbling, dirt road real people sounds that dominated the back country of the southern mountains 40 years ago. It presents a string of the most extraordinary singers, players and dancers the BlueGrass Mountains had to offer. Many later became famous. Some were never heard from again. Most of the songs are classics, including Lunsford's own tune, "Mountain Dew."
When this film aired on Public Television in 1965, TV Guide gave it a full-page positive review, because Americans had never seen a documentary on the roots of Bluegrass and Country music. Today, the dirt roads and the moonshine counties are largely modernized, and Bluegrass Roots, stands as a record of a uniquely talented group of people at a time just before the coming of television, changed them. www.createspace.com/204609

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bluegrass
• 1964 Music
• Mountain Folk History
• Banjo
• david hoffman
• great
• bluegrass
• fiddle playing
• lost john the fiddling man
• country music
• Bill McElreath
• clog dancing
• mountain dancer
• square dance
• Mountain music
• Appalachia
• Appalachian music
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• elvis presley
• johnny cash
• mandolin
• Country Music
• Bluegrass Music

[LoneStarTweety]

Jessco White needs to watch this. This is so great and I love the Johnson Boys song.

[allinaday]

@LoneStarTweety - Who is Jessco White please....

David Hoffman - Filmmaker

[cliffa71]

@allinaday Mr. Hoffman I have lived in Yancey County NC for the past 4 years and really enjoyed watching your film. Jessco White is the son of D. Ray White a famous clog dancer from W.V. He is a legend in his own right known as the dancing outlaw. He was most recently featured in a film called the Whites of west virginia.

[allinaday]

@cliffa71 Thank you for your reply. I will look him up. My best wishes to you.

David Hoffman–filmmaker

[wellhill99]

Who Says white people aint got soul. 

[allinaday]

@wellhill99 - not me!

David Hoffman - Filmmaker

[djasmenu]

i'm from croatia and this reminds me of how my people cherish their cultural and musical heritage. making and posting such films is the best way of reminding people, especialy young, of the legacy they have to guard from being pushed aside by cheap thrills of modern age and low quality instant entertainment.

[oldgrumpsy]

What a beautiful clip, people so obviously in love with their roots.

[Dananeeri]

nice video :

[Fitzliputzli23]

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When I try this for only five seconds I get a heart attack. And I am half his age and don't smoke.

[09201951ful]

Beautiful, I love it . But at the same I don't love it whole heartedly as I should because I keep having visions of black bodies hanging from a tree. Art should not have this sort of an effect should it ?

[MrWjforsyth]

god bless you folks hope your keeing fit and well ! i hope your dance style is passed down , fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DeKomP

[MrSailcat]

I wish the dog had started howling with the music.

[Mountchoirboy]

God bless such soul

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

I cannot start to express how brilliant it is to see this...THANKS

[davidgrahamscott]

Ha!! Check ol' Blue coming in at the end. Wouldn't have been the same without a sleepy old hound dog on that porch!!

[davidgrahamscott]

Truly great documentary making!!