Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass 2012
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.
- Released: 2012-06-19
- Runtime: 35 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Stars: Alan Lomax, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Jean Ritchie, Jack Elliott
- Director: Alan Lomax, George Pickow, Anna Lomax Wood, Jean Ritchie, Alan Lomax