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REAL Mountain Bluegrass Filmed In 1965 With Bascom Lamar Lunsford
David Hoffman ^ | 28/4/2000

Posted on 10/23/2023 3:27:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

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.

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(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: bascomlunsford; bluegrass; mountain
Great music, as originally recorded.
1 posted on 10/23/2023 3:27:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

A national treasure. Thanks for posting.


2 posted on 10/23/2023 3:50:43 AM PDT by smartymarty (How a mountain girl can love.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Morehead State University did a similar project in the 70’s in Eastern Kentucky. Unfortunately,it was audio only, no film. They interviewed my Grandfather. He and his friends did a little pickin’ session for them. I can remember my grandfather watching Porter Waggoner or Flatt & Scruggs on TV and hearing a song or two he liked, then going in his room with his fiddle. Later he would play them for us.


4 posted on 10/23/2023 4:36:40 AM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: ping jockey

Some of it’s an acquired taste. The first time I ever heard Man of Constant Sorrows, it sounded to my ears like somebody moaning with a stomach ache. When you listen to several versions and take the time, it becomes beautiful.


5 posted on 10/23/2023 4:51:14 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Always been a fascination for me. I am now a resident of NC and I love it here.


7 posted on 10/23/2023 6:04:53 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Eleutheria5

My wife is from that part of the world. She told me once of being at what she called a pig-pickin’, somewhere back in the hills, when Doc Watson and Vassar Clements showed up. Doc heard her singing in the crowd and called her up to sing with the group.


8 posted on 10/23/2023 6:24:44 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Eleutheria5

About half way thru it now...what a great video. And the cars...wiith their steel dashboards LOL!


9 posted on 10/23/2023 6:24:55 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!โ€œ LOL...)
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To: Eleutheria5

Bkmk


10 posted on 10/23/2023 6:40:01 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: bleach

Morehead State University did a similar project in the 70โ€™s in Eastern Kentucky. Unfortunately,it was audio only, no film. They interviewed my Grandfather. He and his friends did a little pickinโ€™ session for them. I can remember my grandfather watching Porter Waggoner or Flatt & Scruggs on TV and hearing a song or two he liked, then going in his room with his fiddle. Later he would play them for us.
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It’s hard to understand how anyone could not enjoy this authentic, vibrant, music straight from the heart and soul. I too was blessed as a young man to have a grandfather as a fiddler. He and I would play music (I on guitar) whenever we could get together. He would lean back in his rocking chair, arthritic fingers on the fiddle’s keyboard, and with eyes closed would whip off a twenty-minute streak of fiddle tunes. He could slide smoothly into one tune after the other. He used to play for barn dances as a younger man in my upper Midwest neck of the woods. However, the original authentic stuff came out of Appalachia which is where my granddad got most of his tunes.


11 posted on 10/23/2023 7:01:58 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: All

2 words.....
Billy Strings.....


12 posted on 10/23/2023 8:26:24 AM PDT by sweeperboy
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To: Eleutheria5

we used to go to the Old Time Fiddlers Convention in Harmony/Union Grove NC

50th anniversary was the first time and we went the next five years, good times...


13 posted on 10/23/2023 8:29:10 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Eleutheria5

Love bluegrass. Just found Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, a band from Norway. Youtube them.


14 posted on 10/23/2023 9:12:46 AM PDT by stickandrudder (Another Bitter-Clinger! God-Family-Tribe - LGB-FJB brotherhood)
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To: Eleutheria5

๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘Œ


15 posted on 10/23/2023 2:30:36 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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