Appalachian Journey

Appalachian Journey (1991)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1991-07-19
  • User Rating: 9.5/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 58min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Alan Lomax
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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. Narrated by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity’s Alan Lomax Archive channel on YouTube additionally streams outtakes from this film: other strong performances by Sheila Kay Adams, Dellie Norton, and Cas Wallin, Lawrence Eller, the Hickses, Algia Mae Hinton and John Dee Holeman, Tommy Jarrell, John “Doodle” Thrower, and Nimrod Workman.

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Directing Alan Lomax Director
Crew Jim Brown Cinematography
Sound Ginger Turek Sound Assistant
Crew Nicolás Echevarría Cinematography
Sound Jack Gordon Sound
Editing Howard Sharp Editor
Editing Jenny Campbell Editor
Production Jaime Barrios Associate Producer
Production Mike Dibb Producer