Released:
2012-06-19

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.

Director:
Alan Lomax

Runtime:
0h 35min

Genre:
Documentary, Music

• Cast:
• 
  Alan Lomax
  as
  Self
• 
  Memphis Slim
  as
  Self
• 
  Willie Dixon
  as
  Self
• 
  Jean Ritchie
  as
  Self
• 
  Jack Elliott
  as
  Self