REAL Mountain Bluegrass Filmed In 1965 With Bascom Lamar Lunsford

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This man is the great Appalachian Mountain North Carolina folk musician/historian/wonderful character Bascom Lamar Lunsford. I have posted here the entire documentary that I made because so many of my subscribers have asked to see more of this film.
Back in 1965, I was making my first television documentary (23 years old) and got the chance to go down from New York City to spend six weeks with Bascom and his wife Freda as they drove around the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains to find unknown but great musicians, dancers, poets, singers & songwriters for his music festival- The Asheville Music and Dance Festival that he founded in 1929. I knew as I rolled 16mm film through my camera that I was recording amazing mountain music history.
In the early 1990s, PBS gave me the chance to return to those wonderful mountains and tell a story of Bascom's life and why he was so committed to preserving and sharing the mountain (some would say old-time) music and dance and storytelling of his people. Although he was not a great performer, Bascom had a keen understanding who was the best for Appalachian mountain fiddling, for flat picking guitar, for 5 string and 4 string banjo, for clog dancing and other forms of square dance. He saw these art forms as classically American. I loved those people and their creativity then. I love them now.
I take every opportunity to thank Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his wife and his colleagues and friends for so openly sharing their incredible abilities with an outsider-a young man from New York with a profound respect for their unique and creative culture.
And for all of you who think that this culture has died, my experience is that it has not. The music, songwriting, dance, storytelling, sense of humor, so prevalent in the mountains of North Carolina, is alive and well. I love the Luke Bryan songs, the Creed Fisher songs, the Blake Sheldon songs, and everything played and sung by the amazing Billy Strings. I wish I could go to those mountains again and be with the grandchildren of the people who I filmed.
If you found my film of entertainment value and/or historical value, I ask you to support my efforts by clicking the Super Thanks button below the video screen or by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/allinaday. I have much more to share if time and money allow.
Thank You
David Hoffman filmmaker

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@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Год назад

If you liked my documentary and you want to see the next major music documentary I made, this one on Earl Scruggs, I know you will enjoy. Bluegrass. Country. Mountain. History. The best of Appalachia - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OlneqC0mVsk.html

@matthewweaver5610 Год назад

Clay Lunsford is the great nephew of Bascom here in Union Grove, NC, and President of the North Carolina Thumb Pickers. He and I perform over 100 shows a year, and the Lunsford Family has a Gospel Quartet celebrating 55 years in Union Grove known as "The Gospel Voices." We play a lot at Biltmore, Dollywood, Churches, and more.

@matthewweaver5610 Год назад

I am a graduate of Appalachian Studies and History from Appalachian State. Great video of Bascom. Some old footage you will see Clay playing guitar with Bascome around 17 years old.

@coffissa Год назад

I have been lucky enough to meet Flatt & Scruggs...oh...I grew up with..."Get along home ...Cindy...Cindy..."

@cappystrano1 8 месяцев назад

Good luk

@f1s2hg3 8 месяцев назад

My grandparents played bluegrass and my granddad wrote the songs and my childhood was rich in music and heritage of the Frontier Mountain men with families love their music and I never forgot my family and the TENNESSEE BLUEGRASS MUSIC!

@eddiesutton9759 7 месяцев назад

I'm from the Appalachians. Yall better best believe. That this music has not died out.

@johnsmbg 8 месяцев назад

Bunch of random folks in living rooms and porches making amazing music just because. This is a treasure. Thanks for putting this on the internet

@fuerstinhun98 5 месяцев назад

Typical German custom.

@jimiplayscobo5877 5 месяцев назад

@@fuerstinhun98 Irish Scotts East Coast is the same.

@fuerstinhun98 5 месяцев назад

@@jimiplayscobo5877 When I was working on my husband's family history, I discovered that nearly all the Scot-Irish on the east coast, especially in the Virginia-West Virginia area, are actually Scots. They were Covenanters from Scotland who'd been persecuted and escaped to Ireland, where they lived for 2-3 generations, but never married into the surrounding Irish population. This was in the 1600s. The reality is, over the multitude of centuries long before the 1600s, the Scots and the Irish had moved back and forth between the two countries, but the Vikings had also colonized both countries around 1000 AD. The Vikings were sometimes just the Swedes, sometimes the Norse, sometimes both, and sometimes included the Danish/Jutes as well. ALL of these peoples ~ Celts, Scandinavians, etc. were descendants of the royal tribes of Israel, if you go far enough back in history. The royalty exception were the Danites/Canaanites among them ~ they were a minor percentage of those populations, and were considered to be a criminal population. For more information on that see Genesis 49 and Amos 8:14. These criminals are the international banking cabal today, who are in the process of being purged from the Earth so the righteous tribes of Israel will once again rule the Earth. I hope this doesn't muddle things up for you, but at the very least, you should look up the history of the Covenanters of Scotland and follow those who escaped to Ireland. I think that persecution began in the mid to late 1500s. May The Father richly bless you and yours in your search for the truth.

@mahe-2268 3 месяца назад

Fantastic Heritage. Do not let it get lost to humankind ! Greetings from Mexico

@passamaquoddy8311 3 года назад

As a German I like this oldtime Amerika much, much more than it is nowadays. Maybe it was poor but it was so honest.

@justaguy2365 Год назад

Don't let media fool ya. These folks are still there. And still going strong.

@jonnaborosky8836 3 года назад

My great grandmother was a Lunsford. She was Sarah Lundsford, but called Zorra. She married Maynard David Whaley. They had several children: twins Willy and Lily, but Willy died as a babe. Della and Marshall. Lily was my grandmother. I think Bascom was my grandmother's nephew. I'm not positive, but it sure looks like it. That means he'd have been my mother's first cousin and my first cousin once removed. Sure does make me proud. I have to say I love that music with all my heart! ❤

@TheZumph 3 года назад

Well according to the midwits on here that makes you Scots Irish... except for the English surnames

@justaguy2365 Год назад

I went to school at Madison with a few Lunsfords. I'm a Ledford.

@lunsford555 Год назад

I wonder if we're any relation, I unfortunately am not close with my Lunsford side of the family, My great grandfather was named Jacob and named my grandfather Clarence

@deborahadair1902 10 месяцев назад

My great grandmother was also a Lundford.

@eternallife9786 9 месяцев назад

Wow regular family reunion here 😂 I share the last name of Stanley I remember my Grandpa and he was a huge bluegrass fan even played the banjo a little bit even though he always denied any sort of relation he would joke around about it

@FlipDahlenburg 7 месяцев назад

I've noticed this a lot: There were a lot of great old microphones back in the old days from the forties onward that picked up sound beautifully and faithfully, from varied distances.

@brianthompson5521 7 месяцев назад

I believe this mountain style music will live on forever in the mountains and hills of Heaven!!!

@romper4444 5 месяцев назад

Amen to that brother!

@swisschalet1658 5 месяцев назад

I reckon you're right

@burleybater 6 месяцев назад

The Dance bit at the 45, 46, 47 minute mark. I've watched this so many times. The pure joy of this. The exuberance, the pride, the energy, the human beauty and the timelessness of it. Sometimes we can almost believe we've achieved perfection. As to the Appalachian part of Americana. When I was 19 I took sharp right turn from rock & roll and started investigating roots music. I never really turned away again. As a young man, early twenties, I picked up Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River (then Look Homeward Angel, The Web and the Rock, and finally You Can't Go Home Again.) That was just a glimmering sneak peak into the culture of Appalachia (in particular, the Carolinas) from Wolfe. But the music. That is where so much of the magic lies. The rich hotbed, the motherlodes radiating out in every direction. Thank you Mr. Hoffman, for the work you've done.

@justforever96 7 месяцев назад

Love how the guy in the awesome old American car reached to the back to open the door for them to get in. Never seen that (unless the door was broken, or with old manual locks). Such a typically southern gesture of welcome, a small thing but somehow significant. Also reminds me of reaching back to roll down the windows while driving, in my last cars without power windows. i personally miss crank down windows; yes, power windows have their good points, but they always manage to be annoying, won't stop at the right spot without fiddling with them, have to turn the car on to use them, you hit the wrong button and open the back window instead, etc. And i miss vent windows. I am glad i was born early enough to remember the rotary phone, manual windows, no cell phones, no internet. What scares me is that at the time i didnt realize i was living history, i was too busy moping about what was already gone (i was born this way i guess). And now i have to remind myself that as bad as it seems now, someday (God willing) i will look back on 2023 and tell people about how we still used gasoline cars, we had actual stores you walked into and picked out what you wanted instead of just ordering it online, and god knows what else will be gone by then. "People actually used to raise their children in their own homes, by themselves, the state didn't do that for them, and they hadn't outlawed teaching prohibited ideas yet". Probably.

@fuerstinhun98 5 месяцев назад

When I was a kid, we had a car just like that. Talk about flashbacks!

@mechcavandy986 7 месяцев назад

There’s a lot of old mountain culture in the Ozarks today. 🤠🤠

@canberradogfarts 3 года назад

Born and raised Appalachian, Blue Ridge Boy. I smell my summers at my granmothers, outside in the fields listening to my grand uncle's Call Out and play fiddle. Thank you.

@AussieBrit 3 года назад

BLOODY FANTASTIC!!! I have shown this to my millennial adult children to remind them that life is not all about how popular you are on social media, it's about living a real-life with passion and enthusiasm regardless of your circumstance.

@brianaimar3124 7 месяцев назад

amen

@Buce-ku9vx 7 месяцев назад

Why is it "BLOODY " ?

@mechantics 7 месяцев назад

@Buce-ku9vx it's an Aussie Thang. Cousin was born and raised in Perth, and his use of "Bloody hell, mate!" is akin to me saying, "Oh, S#@t man!" here in the States

@maxrawnsley1401 7 месяцев назад

Good advice

@mikelisacarb Год назад

17:58 Pre GPS - When life required little boys to be able to give reliable directions. "Ya go down the second road, not the first one ... " Talk about "lost arts"!!!! Also great to see Alan Lomax, Mike Seeger, Roger Sprung back in these earlier days, when they were still out presenting the folk message! Such a quality documentary! Countless hours of shooting and careful editing, when one only expected it to ultimately be aired a few times. Bascom's "single mindedness" was certainly exclusionary, but by holding a tight rein on things he carved out a respectful spot for artistic endeavors that had previously been falsely represented and mocked. Serious, somewhat scholarly, but always entertaining "folk festivals" are still with us big time!

@betsyj59 8 месяцев назад

Great observation about the young boys giving somewhat complex directions clearly, straightforwardly, and confidently (and the direction seeker understanding exactly what they said and not having to ask twice) in comparison to so many today listening to a computer voice telling them what to do while driving, having no idea of how to read a map or ask locals for directions and then remembering those directions. Talk about people purposefully turning themselves into automatons! (And turning themselves into helpless victims when the GPS lady leads them far, far astray.)

@salyluz6535 7 месяцев назад

I refuse to use GPS, and modern parents should do the same thing. We learned to read a map by following along as our parents drove, & by paying attention to the sun’s position and cloud direction, or a distant lit up sky (from city lights) and star positions at night, we could usually easily tell what direction we were facing. It wasn’t so difficult to learn to navigate, especially if you’ve been somewhere once before. I believe this uses a part of our brain that must be sadly atrophied in most modern youth these days. It’s a choice of parents to either teach their children useful skills for communication, future success and survival- or else to put their children at a disadvantage, and make their futures more difficult. I know which I prefer.

@daveyjoweaver6282 Год назад

I lived in the mountains of south east Kentucky in the late 60s. I play guitar and knew many old songs, being a Carter Family, Doc Watson and Blue Grass fan. I’d sing some of the old timey songs and some of the old folks would remember the event that the song had been written about. When I was there there were still dirt roads and tiny stores all over. Still shuckin and bean stringin parties and music being sung and played. It was perhaps the best time of my life filled with the finest People and culture and music. I am very blessed to have had this gift! For this I will always be Grateful! Kind Thanks and Many Blessings! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

@jean-marcknight8816 8 месяцев назад

Sometime I think about all the things we’ll never see or hear because nobody was there to collect it for posterity, and it makes my appreciation of this kind of footage greater

@KBennett1900 4 года назад

Be proud of who u are, I'm a coal miners daughter. From the hills of west Virginia, love god serve him be kind to others , go to church pray everyday an he will take care of u,

@SamanthaNickole02 3 года назад

Amen, miss Krystal!😁

@tduna329 3 года назад

That is a beautiful thing to say.

@jackieblue787 3 года назад

Any coal miners daughter has a higher IQ than any liberal college graduate. Seriously. I have a double major in shit I knew after high school.

@momcatx2 2 года назад

My WV Nanny was proud of her hillbilly heritage.

@MrAussieUK 2 года назад

I’m from West Yorkshire. I’ve never been to West Virginia but I’ve found myself ten thousand miles from home in recent years. Country roads take me hone indeed.

@sapper1226 8 месяцев назад

As a Lunsford whose family came from the Appalachian and Ashville, this is a great documentary

@joelaichner3025 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for all the misplaced memories , and the tears , but mostly all the memories

@nellef.7666 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for making these documentaries. My mother played the fiddle and folks gathered at different neighbor's houses on Saturday nights to play the music and that's where I learned to square dance.

@jacobheeringa6469 3 года назад

The part of clog dancing on the porch, i watch it very often👍👍

@lindasidle2723 3 года назад

I was born and raised in Ohio with much influence of my Appalachian Grandmother from Grant Co NC and Petersburg WV. At 25 I moved to Northern KY. By the age of 55 I owned a small tobacco farm in Lewis CT Ky. I love these people who are a huge part of my genealogy. Moms family is Scotch/Irish. I'll always be proud of my roots.

@andrewcockburn3227 3 года назад

One of the best years of my life was woodworking and cutting timber frames in a barn shop, listening to bluegrass and gospel music while working. Beautiful music and poetic words.

@clawhammer704 7 месяцев назад

My great grandfather Jesse Loy was a old country fiddler who died in 1958. I got to see his fiddle before a family member gave it away.

@ManScoutsofAmerica 4 года назад

Bascom, now that’s a name.

@lilblackduc7312 7 месяцев назад

This is fantastic! Everyone who loves, or appreciates music should see this well-done documentary...

@henrikeriksson6910 5 месяцев назад

Agree

@brianthompson5521 7 месяцев назад

My grandmother was born ‘n raised in the mountains of southwest Virginia so I feel a connection to these people music and culture!

@maryheiman4091 4 года назад

I loved seeing the Boys and girls square dancing brought back memories in grade school when we learned how to square dance

@smwrbd 3 года назад

We also learned late 60s in Detroit.

@ctheflower7818 4 года назад

Precious Times, Precious Folks 💞

@williamvigil2951 2 года назад

Thank you Mr Hoffman. This made me think of the sweet gospel music and elders from my childhood that I miss so dearly. I'm almost in tears

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 2 года назад

Thank you William for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that RU-vid is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

@donaldeverette6498 4 года назад

Love that young ladies smile dancing with the group!

@fredlabozzetta7556 Месяц назад

Me to the one withe check dress love to see her now

@stevecastro1325 5 месяцев назад

Seeing those kids clogging and stepping was so worth it! Just pure enjoyment of the moment.

@stobbinsboy 7 месяцев назад

Mr. David Hoffman, you really are America's Biographer. What you are preserving is greater than jewels or gold. I am proud there are still people like you who care about our citizen's enough to share your amazing documentarian spirit and talent with the world. You are much needed and loved!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that RU-vid is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

@GuruishMike 7 месяцев назад

Amazing, thanks. Love Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

@Thonolan000 7 месяцев назад

I've always loved Lunsfords's music, but this video makes me appreciate it even more.

@virginiaoppenheimer1237 3 года назад

I've been an admirer of David's ever since I saw the dancing clip!

@ShepStevVidEOs 4 года назад

I love this! Personally I’d rather listen to some of this than a lot of the more modern music.

@oldcigarette7538 4 года назад

You wanna start listening to Gangsta Rap. Try Plan B's Mr Drug Dealer. You'll love it.

@janinealbrecht5985 3 года назад

I love the blue grass and clogging

@joegiardina1121 3 года назад

Agree 🇺🇸

@sitarnut 3 года назад

Bascom's voice sounds like "Tex" Ritter....

@gabestein350 3 года назад

@@sitarnut Actually he sounds more like Ol' Earl Clayton 😏

@kevinkiso4579 7 месяцев назад

I absolutely love this kind of authentic documentary making. However, I've been a guitarist here on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State (I now live in Seattle) since I was a child in the early 70s. My mother and father were folk singers around 65 - 66. I grew up hearing Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, Arlo Guthrie, Leonard Cohen, Gram Parsons, Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, etc. Thank you for delivering this incredible history of ours to all of America if they care to learn about it. I understood the power of the language of music before I understood the necessity of the spoken word. 🌹

@jockellis 8 месяцев назад

I like how proud the young guitarist at about 36:00 is to be playing with the old timers.

@jeremyreagan9085 3 года назад

I play mountain music on fiddle and banjo. My grandfather was a folksinger. So us simple people are still out here. Hu folks from Texas!

@stanibol 3 года назад

On the one hand, I imagine Lunsford to have been a belligerent, demanding and hedonistic old codger, but on the other hand, one so determined, capable and dedicated to his life's passions - traditional dance and music and the social narrative embracing the Appalachian ways, for the love of human spirit.

@tommaddox1028 3 года назад

I met him in the in 60s at in his festival in Ashville NC I went down for a number be of years. I played guitar. I have his autograph and program of the mountain cloging

@Sduell60 8 месяцев назад

When you're poor, the one thing the government can't take from you is your singing voice. I've walked many lonely roads with only my singing to keep me sane.

@robinpesek3657 4 года назад

I would be delighted to hear of all the cooking (dishes) he was given in the homes.

@elvadrum4965 Год назад

Enjoying the film so much! My dad was a breakdown fiddler. It was a form of entertainment as well as a way to make a dollar. When he and Mom were young she said people would have square dances in their homes by rolling up the carpet. I watched them square dance many times at our little town dance hall. Likewise he passed on musical ability and love of music to us four kids. I found it awesome that Bascom wrote “Mountain Dew”.

@MerwinARTist 4 года назад

From 5 yrs old I grew up in the Asheville area .. in Arkansas now .. but sharing this with several of my Appalachian friends.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 4 года назад

Thank you Merwin. David Hoffman-filmmaker

@johnlomax2502 4 года назад

David. Just wanted to say that I hope you and your family are safe and well. We appreciate you. Be well. Stay safe. John Lomax

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 4 года назад

Thank you John. David Hoffman - filmmaker

@JoseighBlogs 3 года назад

Every nation needs its 'Bascom Lamar Lunsfords'. How else can unique corners of history be so stubbornly, doggedly and obsessionally recorded and archived? Only by driven, inspired enthusiasts like him? _Thanks from the UK_

@kayakman9845 3 года назад

we must never lose this music never

@krazykris4785 Год назад

Thankyou for this wonderful story..when l first saw this man on another video l thought he must've had an exciting life and now l know he sure did.. incredible ❤️

@therealzilch 7 месяцев назад

Another great film, thanks, David. I notice that the violin Lunsford is playing is obviously homemade. Works fine and probably saved the price of many meals. cheers from sunny Vienna, lunch offer still open, Scott

@willosborne7485 Год назад

From Creston NC / Mountain City TN, super proud of my heritage

@ronnielee7954 8 месяцев назад

I’ve always loved this music. My grandmother was born Sevier Coumty, TN in 1907. She left and lived all over the country during the depression but she had taken a lot of criticism for being a hillbilly. It bothered her but she never changed in the 40 years I knew her. I always thought it a shame people could be foolish. She taught me a lot. I’ve never heard anything but good about the mountain people we came from and we could use a little today in the culture we live among.

@FRLN500 7 месяцев назад

My mother was a "hillbilly" and proud of it. The people where she was born referred to themselves as "hillfolk".

@PipeCat1965 7 месяцев назад

Man, do I love this kind of documentary. Such incredible music. So glad this was captured and preserved. What a great share.

@IIVVBlues 3 года назад

This stimulated a memory of one evening I spent in northern Ontario at a historical reenactment with a number of Metis from Manitoba. Most of the encampment was English speaking and the French speaking Metis were off by themselves. I'm not fluent in French, but for reenactments I had learned some old 18th and 19th century French Canadian tunes. They were singing and playing among themselves by the fire when I joined in with some verses they had forgotten and some they had never heard. There was an instant bond formed by singing and playing together. Like long lost friends, we sang and danced clear through the night until morning. Music, especially long memory music, binds one generation to another and it is truly a shame that we are losing that tradition.

@ryansnodgrass5232 2 года назад

I'm a Appalachian and have always been. Moved around a lot as a kid and saw a good piece of the US. I never seemed to fit in too well. Then we moved back next to the Ohio river in the foot hills and I fit right in. Your story reminded me of a story from my Mawmaw( Grandma). My family hails from eastern Kentucky in the mountains, and one day or weekend a year the whole family would go clean up the old cemetery and put flowers and such. Have a good big meal and the part she really remembered and wished was still around was after supper the family would sing gospel music on the pouch for awhile.

@robinpesek3657 4 года назад

Fills my soul to hear it.

@jiveturkey9993 4 года назад

That's just as good as a Ken Burns documentary.

@jiveturkey9993 4 года назад

I take that back. It's better.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 4 года назад

my style is more informal. More ordinary folk. I admire what he does but I prefer the “ordinary people.” David Hoffman-filmmaker

@jiveturkey9993 4 года назад

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker after giving it more thought I felt you edged him out, because one thing, you didn't have this gigantic unlimited budget and complete carte blanche that he would have but I also felt that I think he would have avoided mentioning the media and cultural Elites unfair treatment of these people.

@Duck_Dodgers 8 месяцев назад

Ken burns and his documentaries are all political and various things. He gives you a view his view his political view

@Duck_Dodgers 8 месяцев назад

My grandfather came from west Virginia sitting right on the ohio river my grandmother came from the hills in Kentucky. My grandfather played the banjo like it was part of him. A lot of people in this country don't realize without these "hillbillies" this country wouldn't exist

@justforever96 7 месяцев назад

They are the country as far as I am concerned. Pains me greatly to see three whole cultures and heritage dying out. It's happening all over the world. Yes, we can record the crap out of it, some people are very good at emulating their performances, but the actual culture it is rooted in is dying or dead. Maybe inevitable, maybe the benefits outweigh the negatives, as some insist, but it still pains me a great deal. You have some traditions like shape note singing that have been taken over by others and preserved in a form, but the culture that originally adopted it and kept it alive is disappearing. My heritage is from the mountains of northern New England, and the same thing had happened here. Tragic because I think we had a fantastic and unique culture up here. I sympathize strongly with the Appalachian folk because I find that mountain folks tend to have more in common with each other than with other people, wherever they live. It seems to be breed a certain mindset and sense of humor and independence.

@karenpayne1284 7 месяцев назад

Amen, thank you!

@christymearna883 6 месяцев назад

Amen 🧠💯💞🙏

@monicacall7532 2 года назад

When I was 13 I fell in love with Appalachian folk music thanks to a book that I had just read. From that time on I learned everything that I could about this wonderful music. Later on I became acquainted with Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his efforts to preserve the music of the Southern Mountains. Little did I know that I would marry a man whose ancestors were among the very first settlers in the mountains of Western NC! The first time our family went back to see where his family had come from it was my pleasure to introduce him and our son to the amazing music that I’d loved for so long. There’s a special quality to Appalachian folk music that isn’t found in any other type of folk music. Its primeval roots reach right into the deepest part of a person and stay there. Thank you so much for making this wonderful documentary available for all to see.🎵

@justingreenwood8149 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for making the distinction between Appalachian folk music and bluegrass. While I certainly appreciate the music that I heard in this fine documentary, it certainly isn't bluegrass.

@user-zi5zp4ym6c 6 месяцев назад

Joan my beloved wife born and raised in Bryson City North Carolina lived among these people Heard all of this music many many many talented singers instrument players dancers throughout the Appalacians .....incredible

@starcloudhidden8074 4 года назад

The true McCoy in my DNA Loved this ❤️ Thank You 😊 💞🕊️💞

@2010djbrooklyn 4 года назад

I wish my father was still around. He'd have got a right kick out of this video. Thank you for your time Mr Hoffmann

@jacobheeringa6469 3 года назад

I am from the Nethetlands and i feel a big connection with these people and music. I find it unbelieveble that a lot of these mountain people can play so nice. I would i had some of that...😁😁

@yourtubisfilled7164 5 месяцев назад

Wonderful time capsule. Stuff like this should survive on RU-vid forever. Thanks so much for sharing.

@stephielulu9096 4 года назад

The US is such an amazing place. I would love to travel around there 💖💖

@EVa-fj5et 3 года назад

A lot of the influence of Appalachia music is tied to Ireland. 💗 My family on both sides are from Appalachia and there is so much Irish and Native American.

@TheZumph 3 года назад

Bollocks Appalachian is mostly English this guys name for a start

@EVa-fj5et 3 года назад

@@TheZumph You do know that English is also spoken in Ireland, right genius? I did not say Gaelic. 🤦‍♀️ The southern accent of the mountains is tied to the high population of Irish in the Appalachias.

@TheZumph 3 года назад

@@EVa-fj5et 70 percent of Appalachian names are English...take your Irish revisionism elsewhere

@SuperMikado282 Год назад

@@TheZumph Exactly.

@christastempel5577 3 года назад

North America is 'the land of the free, and freedom seems to certainly be enjoyed by the Appalachian mountain people, but at what price? Social security was non-existent, and Health and Dental care, was not at all given in the past. People had to rely on their own devices, and poverty was a given. That such great music, lyrics and stories were handed down from the early European settlers over the ages, is great fortune for all who enjoy this cultural heritage, now that we can listen to this on modern day You Tube. Thanks to all folks, who kept on playing, singing, and telling stories, despite hardship and life in isolation and poverty.

@byronofcascadia8629 3 года назад

Thank you David H for your good heart and work

@tessjones5987 3 года назад

My father was from Asheville. His family lived their many many generations.

@mikegross6107 5 месяцев назад

Lord, I wish I was younger and healthier in order to go back to the mountains of Virginia where I was born! But since that is impossible I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this documentary and wish you and yours the best of a future life!

@ehayes5217 8 месяцев назад

What an interesting story of this man & the result of his early interest & later influence on things we take for granted today; cheers to him & to everyone keeping these traditions alive & well!👍🇺🇸

@williamstel9330 7 месяцев назад

What a delightful history all homegrown. Thank God for this man to record and save this ancient American history.

@robertdiehl1281 4 года назад

I traveled through the Great Smoky Mountains in the early 70’s. The music and people and country were a world apart from Southern California where I was from. The smell in the evenings and on Sundays after church...of the locals cooking their dinners for their families I’ll never forget. Wonderful aromas so far away from tacos and hamburgers I grew up with in SoCal. I can only hope that some of that culture still remains today. Great video...

@georgiagirl1961 2 года назад

It does dear. It's still in those hills and most likely always will be. Its the music passed on passed down and sang with love and pride. I'm proud to be from Appalacha. I live in North Georgia. I've lived in east Tennessee and spent time in the smokeys cherokee blue ridge North Carolina and up unto Virginia and West Virginia. I've been in Turkey Creek North Carolina and places around like Telico, Tn and Hanging Dog, NC.

@krautyvonlederhosen 7 месяцев назад

So many old tunes that without his amazing recall and dogged preserving we would likely never have known. A great big thanks. Similar to Alan Lomax but without a tape recorder. As important to the music as the Monroe bros. He wasn’t lookin’ for a payoff.

@Jewels122003 Год назад

This music makes me cry every time I hear it, my heart is full. Beautiful...... feel like my heart has always been there......... I've only traced to SW KY ........ This music is a treasure ....... Grandma lived in a train thingy ......Mom visited... confusing history since then ..

@jamesb.9155 7 месяцев назад

You are a real documentarian! This doc is really wonderful. Thank you for sharing so much of it here!

@swagobill 3 года назад

I grew up hearing this kind of music in Logan WV....

@rechrech6861 2 года назад

Excellent! Unique! True American people, who could be friends of natives in harmony, Europe and Amerique, but some greedy ones became overwhelming.. So sorry!! Follower frm eastern euroup..

@JoeSmith-gw6hc 3 года назад

Mr. Hoffman thank you for making these available to us. This is American history many wouldn't know about without your films.

@TerryMcKean 4 года назад

Thank you, David

@landryprichard6778 4 года назад

I now live in the western NC mountains. And the culture here is rich, deep and old. It's something to be proud of, not ashamed of. EDIT: Asheville is stunning. The Berkeley of the east, pretty much. 😁

@davidadams2395 4 года назад

I've been in East TN for a year now, and the region is steeped in Americana.

@landryprichard6778 4 года назад

@@davidadams2395 Sweet! Where did you live before?

@iahelcathartesaura3887 4 года назад

Greetings from Asheville :)

@Skunkhunt_42 4 года назад

Wnc is a special place

@lukeswain1752 4 года назад

That's my favorite area! The Nantahala National Forest! And the town of Franlkin and the mountain Wayah Bald! Awesome place, I'll be down that way doing some ramblin' in the next few weeks!

@howardcohen6817 3 года назад

Great film of a great man and totally obscured reality (if not obliterated). Makes me want to go out there and find some people enjoying life without their I-pad. Thank you.

@hobbygamer6220 4 года назад

TOO COINCIDENTAL !!! i JUST LEARNED about Popcorn Sutton, Apallation mountain moonshiner then this comes out ! Love it !

@hobbygamer6220 4 года назад

this very day ! I mean

@sharonbyers3982 4 года назад

@@hobbygamer6220 Popcorn Sutton is one of my favorite characters ever, good to see someone else enjoying him! God Bless and much love from the Oklahoma Grandma.

@virginiaoppenheimer1237 3 года назад

Love this music! I'm from Georgia and heard a lot of it

@ADKMPTN 5 месяцев назад

I grew up in the northern Adirondack mountains of New York and we had our own variety of mountain music. I was born in 1968 and remember the old timers (people in their 80’s) playing banjo and guitars, much like this. This is an important historical document. Thanks for preserving it!

@CravenCo1749 2 года назад

I feel at home here...Iike I've been here before. Very comforting and peaceful. I don't fit in today's society. So greatful for the recording.

@rick262 11 месяцев назад

This film is a treasure, and I expect it'll be an even greater treasure 100 years from now. It describes the musical and cultural history of this region by revealing the people and their music in a very real and honest way. Thanks to Bascom Lunsford and David Hoffman and all the people that shared their lives and music with us through this film.

@rnnyhoff 7 месяцев назад

Such a fascinating history that was revealed to me in this seminal documentary on music so rich and profound and beloved by its participants. What joy at creating music!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 7 месяцев назад

@stephenrichie4646 3 года назад

Second time I’ve watched this. Thoroughly enjoyed it both times.

@matthewpocock4824 7 месяцев назад

What a fascinating film of an amazing life. I've recently become quite interested in Appalachian culture. Thanks for sharing from Australia. Man, what I wouldn't give for one of those old CF Martins...

@danielmeegan6259 4 года назад

Excellent love the bluegrass bands very resourceful people hearty

@allanjohnson2925 3 года назад

It is interesting to see the threads of this through out my life. From square dancing and desegregation to traditional Irish dancing and poverty and music. Memories abound. I am thankful today I found this video and watched it in it entirety.

@sharonbyers3982 4 года назад

Mr. Hoffman, you are the most consistently interesting man... my G-Grandma would have called you "fetching" - God Bless and much love from the Oklahoma Grandma.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 4 года назад

fetching. I'll take that as a compliment. Thank you Sharon. David Hoffman-filmmaker

@garrwill7312 4 года назад

As a person born and raised in the Carolina's I really can appreciate this content ...thank you Mr Hoffman...oh yeah I took some banjo lessons 😂😂blue Grass

@ethnicmusiclover 4 года назад

My favorite artist would have loved this even though she played music of many genres in her short 32 years. Love this!

@dawnhollified2482 4 года назад

Dear Mr Hoffman you have out done yourself this time, thank you I so enjoyed this🙏💞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@paradiseisland786 4 месяца назад

Amazing music, it's real and genuine, people oriented.

@budelmore6286 8 месяцев назад

This is so incredible. I wait for a time like this to return.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 8 месяцев назад

I believe that it is happening right now in the North Carolina mountains and elsewhere. David Hoffman filmmaker

@rupertmcnaughtdavis3649 3 года назад

Fascinating, thanks David! From South Africa.

@kenlee5509 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! So much of my family history is tied to this culture I don't even know where to start, so I won't . Cultural preservation is key to keeping the spirit of freedom alive in the USA, and this is a huge part of that. Keep up the great work, keep reviving the fading memories into actively excited young people making it an exciting and joyful part of their lives!! Real happiness depends on it!