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Various Artists - Folk America Documentary Part 1: Birth of a Nation (2009)

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Track 01
Volume 2
  1. Track 01

Notes


disc 1: burned as NTSC
disc 2: PAL files

Folk America Documentary Part 1 Birth of a Nation PAL DVD
Broadcast BBC4 Friday 23rd January 2009

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: 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.


Chapter list:
1. Introduction : Birth of a Nation
2. Radios and records
3. Fiddlin' John Carson
4. Pop Stoneman
5. Wade Mainer
6. The Banjo and the minstrel shows
7. Uncle Dave Macon
8. The Blues : Blind Lemon Jefferson
9. David "Honeyboy" Edwards
10. Charlie Patton
11. Record players and Slim Bryant
12. Prohibition and Charlie Patton
13. Mississippi John Hurt
14. Henry Thomas
15. Dock Boggs
16. The Carter Family
17. Jimmie Rodgers
18. Wall Street Crash
19. The Future....

Total play time: approx 59mins 21 secs

Audio:AC3 48000Hz 256kb/s stereo
Video:16:9 PAL, 720 x 576, MPEG-2, 25fps Approx 4862kbps
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