Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
Overview
In the early 1960s, when Greenwich Village was bursting with a folk music revival, the Friends of Old Time Music made it their mission to introduce urban audience to some of the legends of pre-war American traditional music. After a 1961 series of concerts featuring Roscoe Holcomb, Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson, Alan Lomax invited the artists and a who’s who of the folk revival back to his West 3rd Avenue apartment for an impromptu song swap. Filming was arranged on the fly and a raw, many-layered evocation of the art and attitude of the period emerges from the footage, with some of the biggest names of the era, old timers and revivalists alike: Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Jean Ritchie, Ernie Marrs, Peter LeFarge, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Guy Carawan,the Greenbriar Boys, and the New Lost City Ramblers.
Top-billed cast
Crew
- Director
- Alan Lomax
- Producers
- George Pickow, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie
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Who directed Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass?
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass was directed by Alan Lomax.
When was Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass released?
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass was released in 2012.
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