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Without old films we'd never know how phoney-baloney contemporary period pieces are. The past is a very unfamiliar place.

I'm a Hollingsworth. I have a bunch of Lunsford family out in that area and in Georgia. They sound very similar when they speak. Just like my Pawpaw actually. He was from Hollingsworth, GA.

The other musicians are Mr and Mrs Lyda Brooks and Gaither Robinson on banjo (R)

They should've left it in B&W!

So All the men have on half chaps or "gaitors" as some say, o.k., so what about the sweet gal? They gonna carry her pass the great danger of ever wondering serpents?

OG crip walk 3:02

I think the first version is orally transmitted and the other versions may be learned from printed music sheets. It sounds archaic compare to the other versions because of its apparent pentatonic characteristics, that it actually sounds like some traditional Appalachian tunes.

Holy shit, learn to sing first! 😂

This film, made in 1928, predates by a year the publication of Look Homeward Angel by Ashville’s arguably most famous son, Thomas Wolfe. That is remarkable.

To record this was pioneering for the time. That’s amazing to me. To just be able to set up a camera and record some music is something we take for granted nowadays. Not so in 1928. What a real treat. Thank you!

Couldn't understand a word coming out of their mouths 😂

I've seen Deliverance. They're Family. Good porn.

Brilliant

Why does this have to be in color? Can't people just let things be the way they were?

I saw her upper ankle! Scandalous!

So this is Scottish folk music that the Scottish took when the Scottish moved to the Appalachian’s it’s not Appalachian music it’s Scottish folk music and the dancing is also Scottish folk dancing

A fiddle, guitar, two banjos, an axe and a shotgun certainly rounds out the equipment necessary to play 100% authentic American music.

Thank you so very much. Wonderful work restoring this. What an honor and privilege to see this. Just precious. One can see here how tap dancing, clog dancing, square dancing and old timey music mountain arose in the US, then country, bluegrass and on to rock. If only these lovely people knew their contribution and part in it all. Such a beautiful language.(From great-great grandaughter of Irish immigrants to US❤)

Love it

Simply brilliant and there are many other films created by Lansford, a man with an eye for posterity. Note the rifle nearby. 😊

This just supports my theory that 90% of crooked fiddle tunes are just the result of people recording fiddlers who didn't know how to count.

Culture, companionship, and simplicity 😊

Hermosa música y lindo recuerdo! Carlos, músico from Buenos Aires!

God bless the United States of America.

Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle When the sun's comin' up, I got cakes on the griddle Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle Thank God I'm a country boy

Amazing! Very beautiful!

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My mother grew up in the hills of Kentucky and my cousin and I sing this music today. Hart Holler

Wow, that's beautiful

Great video! Thanks for posting it. I love how after the song ended, the director got close-up shots of Bascom playing fiddle and of his feet doing his little dance. I assume those shots were to intersplice into the main video to create the effect of multiple cameras (and angles) when only a single camera was used.

The most beautiful sound in the mf world

Interesting violin shape

People on camera from back then who talk like actual people!!! Pretty coo

I have several wax cylinder recordings done by Thomas Edison, recorded 1895 to 1900.

For those in America crying about oppression yet still continue to speak their native language And myself being Irish American and not knowing a few words of the Gaelic language is a travesty

They have nothing to worry about these days this carry’s on and on to the point of saturation today. What’s troubling is how little blue grass Celtic folk clogging is fading away into oblivion. I was at a show the other night it was an Immediate necessity for me with not much to do that day. It was called Celtic Revival and had a mixture of German Irish Scott’s English Blues and oppressive music. It was about kings taking the peoples lane and enslaving the Irish

It reminds me of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver. Maybe he was inspired by this music. Almost certainly.

What a Wonderful Time this must’ve been 😢 4:11

Sounds like “thank God I’m a country boy”

I grew up like this in North Carolina.

Why do they sound black

Back when hillbillies had class. Now they’re all dependent drug addicts like everyone else. I always say, as soon as Appalachia gets dependent upon the socialism, that’s when America is completely lost.

Arguably this is String Band 'Olde Timey' music, which is derivative of appalachian old time.

Fancy footwear too clean not working guys

Black people invented this genre too

Bluegrass before it was ever called that.

A window into the past. Hard to believe that the house I live in was already 17yrs old when this was filmed.

This is a great video but in the future please do not add the unnecesary and distracting video bits on the sides just to fill the screen.

I can hear country boy by John Denver a little bit. Amazing

It's wild. I'm Portuguese, born in 1993, and I distinctly remember hearing laments very similar to these in a couple of funerals as a child. I also remember my grandmother doing it when someone she knew passed away! I know it was common in northern Portugal (where I'm from) and Galícia