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Introduction by Seasick Steve Seasick Steve: Levee Camp Blues Seasick Steve: Introductions Allison Williams and Chance McCoy: Rocky Road To Dublin Allison Williams and Chance McCoy: Wild Bill Jones Seasick Steve: Introductions C W Stoneking: Don’t Go Dancing’ Down The Darktown Strutters Ball C W Stoneking: The Love Me Or Die Seasick Steve: Introductions Cedric Watson and Bijoux Creole – intro to their music Cedric Watson and Bijoux Creole: Cedric Zydeco Seasick Steve: Introductions Diana Jones: If I Had A Gun Diana Jones: Henry Russell’s Last words Seasick Steve: Introductions The Wijos: Some Of These days Seasick Steve: Introduction to Chiggers Seasick Steve: Chiggers Seasick Steve calls everyone back on stage Everyone: Bring It On Down To My House

Part of the Folk America series on BBC4. Official blurb: Hosted by maverick bluesman Seasick Steve, this concert from the Barbican in London showcases an exciting revival of the old-time musical traditions first recorded in the American South in the 1920s. It features Appalachian mountain string band music, vaudeville swing, junk shop blues, creole dance tunes and folk country ballads, all delivered via energetic performances with a fresh twist. An eclectic line-up of young and emerging talent includes CW Stoneking, The Wiyos, Allison Williams and Chance McCoy, Diana Jones, and Cedric Watson and Bijoux Creole.

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Introduction : Birth of a Nation Radios and records Fiddlin' John Carson Pop Stoneman Wade Mainer The Banjo and the minstrel shows Uncle Dave Macon The Blues : Blind Lemon Jefferson David "Honeyboy" Edwards Charlie Patton Record players and Slim Bryant Prohibition and Charlie Patton Mississippi John Hurt Henry Thomas Dock Boggs The Carter Family Jimmie Rodgers Wall Street Crash The Future....

First in a three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s. The opening part looks at how, in the 1920s, record companies scoured the American south for talent to sell. This was a golden age of American music, as the likes of the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Poole, Dock Boggs and Mississippi John Hurt burst onto record, eager to have a share in the new industry and the money it made, only to lapse into obscurity when the depression hit at the start of the 30s. Contributors include Judy Collins, Steve Earle, Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger, surviving relations of 1920s greats such as Mississippi John Hurt, the Carter Family and Uncle Dave Macon, plus three actual survivors of the era - guitarist Slim Bryant, banjoist Wade Mainer and Delta bluesman 'Honeyboy' Edwards.

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Chapter List: Woody Guthrie...and Friends Leadbelly And John Lomax Woody Guthrie Josh White Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger And Leadbelly Josh White And Leadbelly In Washington Woody Guthrie, New York 1940 The Almanac Singers Dave "honeyboy" Edwards Josh White Pete Seeger And Jean Ritchie Pete Seeger And Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly The Weavers The Committee Harry Smith To Bob Dylan

Three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s. Official blurb: In the depression of the 1930s, John Lomax found convicted murderer Leadbelly in a southern jail. Leadbelly's music was never quite as pure and untouched by pop as Lomax believed, but it set a new agenda for folk music, redefining it as the voice of protest, the voice of the outsider and the oppressed. Dustbowl drifter Woody Guthrie fitted the mould perfectly and the two of them teamed up with Lomax's son Alan, Pete Seeger and Josh White - a group of friends who believed 'they could make a better world if they all got together and just sang about it'. Their songs and their radical politics took them to high places of influence, but brought about their downfall in the blacklisting 1950s. Contributors include Pete Seeger, Rambling Jack Elliot, Anna Lomax, Tom Paxton, Roger McGuinn, Woody Guthrie's sister and daughter and Josh White's son.

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Chapters BBC Intro Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trouble In Mind Chatham County Line - The Carolinian The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Run On Odetta - You Gotta Know How Lucinda Williams - Overtime Hot Club Of Cowtown - Diga Diga Doo Devon Sproule - Old Virginia Block Alvin Youngblood Hart - Tallacatcha Emmylou Harris - Wildwood Flower Son Of Dave - Hellhound Norah Jones - Cold Cold Heart Buddy Guy - Crawlin' King Snake The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution Old Crow Medicine Show - Tell It To Me Steve Earl & Del McCoury - Graveyard Shift/Nashville Cats Amy LaVere - Killing Him Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm

TV special of older (2000-2008) On Later music appearances to coincide with the Folk America - Music Documentary Series, which started the night before.

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Chapter List: Blowin' In The Wind Uncle Sam Took Elvis Away...commercial folk Alan Lomax Folklorist Joan Baez Washington Square Park Peter, Paul And Mary...JFK Greenwich Village Early 60's Son Of Woody, Son Of Jack The Spokeman For A Generation Soundtrack To The Civil Rights Movement Washington 1963..I Have A Dream I Would Like To Introduce A Young Singer Newport To Greenwich..anthology Of American Folk Music Robert Johnson Dylan At Newport 1965 Ready For A New Beat Folk Rock..the Watershed Moment Rainbow Quest...Turn, Turn,turn How Does It Feel.. Haight Ashbury..(and A Beardless Jerry) The Smell Of Revolution...the Basement Tapes Synthesis Woodstock 1969 Pete Seeger...ever Ready

Three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s. In the 1960s a new generation, spearheaded by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, took folk to the top of the charts and made it the voice of youthful protest. Whilst the northern folk revivalists helped bring civil rights to the south, the Newport Folk Festival brought the old music of the south to the college kids in the north. However, when Dylan turned up at Newport in 1965 with an electric guitar things would never be the same again. With Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Robbie Robertson, Stephen Stills, Country Joe McDonald, Roger McGuinn, Odetta and Tom Paxton.

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