Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Alan Lomax

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Memphis Slim

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Willie Dixon

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jean Ritchie

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jack Elliott

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Alan Lomax
Camera	Director of Photography	George Pickow
Editing	Editor	Anna Lomax Wood
Sound	Sound	Jean Ritchie
Production	Producer	Alan Lomax George Pickow Jean Ritchie
Department	Role	Name

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