Appalachian Journey (1991)

Appalachian Journey

1991

Documentary

Synopsis

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont.

Credits

Director

Alan Lomax

Cast

Alan Lomax as Narrator

Crew

Jaime Barrios (Associate Producer)

Jim Brown (Cinematography)

Nicolás Echevarría (Cinematography)

Howard Sharp (Editor)

Jenny Campbell (Editor)

Mike Dibb (Producer)