Movie
Appalachian Journey
1991 · 58 min
A warm, unhurried visit with rural musicians and dancers, letting songs and stories carry you along.
- Directed by
- Alan Lomax
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Alan Lomax
- Overview
- Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Music, art, family, faith
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
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- Directed by
- Alan Lomax
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Alan Lomax
