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.

1 hour and 43 minutes

DVD is region 0, playable worldwide

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 Priso

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