This DVD presents poignant and exciting musical performances by four highly expressive and individualistic makers of traditional old time country music. Although Kilby Snow, Dock Boggs, Tommy Jarrell, and Roscoe Holcomb played music that in some ways was typical of the regions in which they spent their whole lives, they also were astonishingly inventive. Their influence has been very far reaching, extending far beyond their communities, and effecting the minds and works of mainstream popular musicians, as well as the playing of far-flung old time music practitioners.

Here is the only known footage of Dock Boggs singing his classic mountain blues and playing his signature banjo style; the intense and original "high lonesome" singing of Roscoe Holcomb, playing both banjo and guitar; Kilby Snow's moving vocal and brilliant autoharp playing.

Running time 60 minutes

DVD is region 0, playable worldwide.

Black-Eyed Susie       Roscoe Holcomb
Bonaparte's Retreat       Tommy Jarrell
Breaking Up Christmas       Tommy Jarrell
Cindy       Kilby Snow
Country Blues       Dock Boggs
Cripple Creek       Tommy Jarrell
Cumberland Gap       Tommy Jarrell
Forked Deer       Tommy Jarrell
I Hope I Live       Dock Boggs
John Brown's Dream       Tommy Jarrell
Old Jimmie Sutton       Tommy Jarrell
Old Smokey       Roscoe Holcomb
Pretty Polly       Dock Boggs
Pretty Polly       Roscoe Holcomb
Raggedy Ann       Kilby Snow
Sail Away Ladies       Tommy Jarrell
Shady Grove       Kilby Snow
The Boll Weavil       Tommy Jarrell
Troubles       Kilby Snow
Two-Timing Blues       Kilby Snow
You Are My Flower       Kilby Snow