Best Bluegrass Clog Dancing Video Ever Made

To get this entire program go to Way back in 1964, New York filmmaker, David Hoffman was headed down with his new 16mm hand help camera (weight 49 lbs!) to spend three weeks driving the backcountry around Madison County, North Carolina, in the center of Appalachia, with the 82 year Bascom Lamar Lunsford. The resulting movie “Bluegrass Roots“ lets you hear and experience the hard scrabbling, back road real people and music that dominated the southern mountains 50 years ago. It presents the most extraordinary singers, players and dancers the BlueGrass Mountains had to offer. Many later became famous. Some were never heard from again. Most of the songs are classics, including Lunsford’s tune, “Mountain Dew.“ This scene was filmed at Bascom’s home with a local dance group came to dance in Bascom’s living room. When this film aired on Public Television in 1965, TV Guide gave it a full-page positive review because most Americans had ne