American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America (1990)

From 1978 to 1985 Alan Lomax traveled the American South and Southwest with a television crew to document regional folklore with deep historical roots. From the resulting 400 hours of footage came the five-program series American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.

American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

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Seasons

Season 1

Miniseries

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Jazz parades: feet don't fail me now

  • 1x2

    Cajun country: don't drop the potato

  • 1x3

    The land where the blues began

  • 1x4

    Appalachian journey

  • 1x5

    Dreams and songs of the noble old

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