Arkansas Traveller - Tommy Jarrell

Tommy Jarrell & Aly Bain
From Aly Bain's 1985 TV Series Down Home (Note - This was a UK Channel 4 broadcast, NOT BBC as some folks assume)

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[crtUK]

AFAIK the series has never been made available on VHS or DVD.However the director of the series, Mike Alexander of Pelicula films, is well aware of the interest and is working hard to try to arrange the required copright clearances (no doubt made more difficult as many of the Artists featured have since sadly died).See disussion on mudcat.org (enter Down Home into search box) so there is hope that we may be getting a DVD soon - keep your fingers crossed!

[crtUK]

I have posted all the musical clips from Parts 1, 2 and 4 here on You Tube, although I had to remove one of them as I was contacted by the Artist who wanted it removing for copyright reasons.

[crtUK]

The series was broadcast in the UK in 1985 in 4 parts.Part 1 was titled "From Appalachia to Nashville",Part 2 was titled "From Shetland to Texas".Part 3 (which I unfortunately missed and have never seen) was titled "Cape Breton and Quebec" and Part 4 was a compilation of different tracks from the Artists featured in the first 3 parts and was called "Good Times Down Home and Back Home".

[brya31]

Boy do I miss folks like Tommy

[brodank]

that clogger is about the cutest thing i ever saw!

[TheDiarmaidable]

areckintha thar gal can dance ....... lak a kat una hot tin rouf...

[SigP229R]

This man is from about 60 mmiles of where I live. There is also another great fiddler from this same area and he has won many awards his name is Benton Flippin. There might be some of his clips on here also. Thanks tho for posting these.

[malagastudent1]

This is the greatest video I've ever seen on the youtube. I cannot thank the uploader of said video enough!

[Kevindad123]

My Pappa and his Father played a lot of square dances all over Illinois and Kentucky during the Great Depression. Pappa played the guitar and Great Granpa played the fiddle. This makes me wish I had "interviewed" him/them on camera. He was definitely a man of great wisdom and "stories". Thanks for posting...

[cloggernc]

This  is Carol (formerly Mallett) Rifkin dancing to Doc Watson and David Holt at merleFest 2010, she will return with them in 2011 . Carol is the same dancer who appeared in the 1985 Aly Bain narrated "Down Home Appalachia to Nashville" with Tommy Jarrell, There is more information at the carolrifkin website

[colindominy]

@mistersleeepy : here, here !!

[colindominy]

Featuring here one of the most-legendary & best-loved of the "Old Originals" .. Tommy Jarrell. Dear crt, a SERIOUS question : is there ANY possible way that this wonderful 1985 TV Series by Aly Bain can be accessed in its entirety - or, even better, can it be PURCHASED in its entirety ? Reason I ask is because I feel that Aly's 1985 work is an honest-to-god HISTORICAL statement .. TOO RARE & PRECIOUS to lose. I'm reminded of David Hoffman's great 1964 film "Bluegrass Roots" .. available on DVD.