The first ever film of Appalachian music (1928) | "Doggett Gap" - Bascom Lamar Lunsford [RESTORED]

This is a video of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (fiddle and vocals) and three other musicians (guitar and banjo) singing a song called "Doggett Gap" recorded in Ashville, North Carolina on October 7th, 1928.
"Doggett Gap" seems very similar to the more famous "Cumberland Gap", so it could simply be a variation of Cumberland Gap with an alternate title. • Tommy Jarrell: Cumberl...
You can see Lunsford playing a fragment of either "Cumberland Gap" or "Doggett Gap" in 1964 at the age of 81 here: • He Sang This Bluegrass...
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973) was a hugely influential figure in twentieth century Appalachian music. Here is a documentary about him: • My Classic Bluegrass/M...
The video was filmed in the inaugural year of the Asheville Mountain Folk and Dance Festival, which continues to this day and is considered the first ever “folk festival”. "Doggett Gap" is the name of a mountain pass in North Carolina, just 25 miles from Asheville.
The fragment at 5:19 is "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane".
I added artificial color with an automatic online tool, and improved the audio to remove background noise.
Here are the lyrics. It would be great if people could help fill in the gaps!
1:26 Runnin' and hollerin' around by the _____________________________ Dogget's Gap
1:37 Breaking up the ground and I pull a pinch of________ I'm a-getting something started in the Dogget's Gap
1:49 Walnut bark and walnut sap, colors of the stockings in the Doggett's Gap
2:08 The old man's a-cussin' but I don't give a rap 'cause the women wear the britches in the Doggett's Gap.
2:20 Run home, boys, and carry on, pap, I'm a-goin' a start cussin' in the Dogget's Gap
2:38 I reined up a filly and I give a little rap, and I rid it like the devil through the Doggett's Gap
2:46 Got a bad feist and a-fetchin' it to yell, and the boys'll run like a bat outta hell
2:57 I've got a girl in the Doggett's Gap, she don't mind a-sittin' in her sweetheart's lap
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[@TheFolkRevivalProject]

The main purpose of this channel is to conserve and share authentic recordings of all kinds of traditional music. If you support this goal and appreciate this channel's content, consider subscribing and exploring what this channel has to offer! I have already uploaded several videos about Appalachian music: How the Appalachian Mountains preserved ancient British ballads (with 36 historical recordings) kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4aqoIqtfLCqiaM Where did Appalachian music come from? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYOsnIt9odmnr8k Appalachian Ballad Singing (1969) | Dillard Chandler, Dellie Norton, Berzilla Wallin kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2LMlWytoMupras Appalachian musician George Landers performs old ballad "The Scotland Man" (c.1960s) kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioOQm59-bLamaaM Appalachian ballad singer Texas Gladden (1947) | "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" [Child 278] kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5KpdaCmaa6al7M Here are several rare videos I uploaded of the Appalachian ballad singer and dulcimer player Jean Ritchie: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppnWlouQlrWipZo kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXTFf4eYf7Ckg6s kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppq5XnV9ea1_fJY kzbin.info/www/bejne/in6loqKbeLmWh6c

[@lulumoon6942]

Please pin this comment so more can see it! 👍😎

[@nicthemickatx]

Will sub

[@ViaticalTree]

If your purpose were actually to conserve you wouldn’t have added that awful colorizing. This absolutely ruins the footage. It looks horrible. Just stop.

[@KM-om1dy]

Thank you so so much for preserving American music history. You are the best! 🎉

[@user-jr5su1nm5i]

Thank you for preserving Appalachian culture

[@waterdog456]

Our Great Uncle,Luther Ramsforth, is third from the left. He always wore those leather gaters on his shins to protect against rattlers and copperheads while traveling about. Uncle Luther lived to the ripe old age of 79 and played the banjo till the day he passed.

[@mandolinman2006]

Would you happen to know the name of the guy that was playing banjo on the end?

[@kingdoc3262]

Was wondering what that was on his shins. So they are called leather gators?

[@RUfrikkinkiddinME]

​@kingdoc3262 gaiters are an article of clothing worn from the shoe or boot to the knee. They serve lots of purposes not least of which is they keep water out of your shoes.

[@misssmith7225]

I was looking at those gaiters! My mind was imagining him wearing them to travel, so that he could take them off and dance in his shoes if he wanted. Thanks for sharing about your great uncle.

[@kingdoc3262]

@@RUfrikkinkiddinME Thank you. I learned something. Are you from there? Where else wears gaiters?

[@pallidbustofpallas4679]

I imagine none of them expected anyone would be enjoying this performance nearly 100 years later!

[@shawnsmith7375]

On a phone, of all things!!!

[@1995pieter]

@@shawnsmith7375 other side of the world. too bad we cant tell them

[@Dozenfury88]

Wonderful to see them dancing and smiling from so long ago. I bet they won that 1st prize down at Big Sandy. A lot of great little things in this video too.

[@radioseppe]

Watching this made me think about my house that’s built in 1926. This was two years after that and what else has happened during the time the house has been here? Few wars, Elvis born and die etc etc… and the walls are still standing in shape for next 100 years

[@NuisanceMan]

@@shawnsmith7375 They probably didn't even have rotary phones.

[@wdanielmurphy]

I grew up in the Appalachians where MD and WV meet. We went to an old country church with a four member band like this who would play most Sundays. It is interesting how part of the signature of this style of music is that the fiddle *must* be played a little sharp off-pitch, and its contribution to the treble *must* border on painful. Likewise, when harmonizing vocals, the higher vocalist should primarily sing through their nose and often will adopt a rather drone like harmony. Personally, I wonder if the nuances of this style are an unconscious descendant of bagpipe tuning idiosyncrasies from Celtic roots. This really took me back, especially the accents, though I was too far north in Appalachia to be accustomed to the banjo. That role was carried by the mandolin. Thanks for this!

[@TheFolkRevivalProject]

Thanks for watching! That's very interesting - I wonder if anyone has written about the fiddles being tuned slightly sharp. I'd recommend watching this video that shows where different features of Appalachian music come from kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYOsnIt9odmnr8k

[@wdanielmurphy]

@@TheFolkRevivalProject Come to think of it, bagpipe higher octaves are tuned flat. My assumption doesn't really support my theory.

[@gale212]

You're in my neck of the woods. Whereabouts in WV/MD? And I second the mandolin thought.

[@wdanielmurphy]

@@gale212 I grew up in the Oakland, Md /Terra Alta WV area. Don't live there anymore, but still visit, and still consider it home...though it has become significantly less remote and wild in the last thirty-something years. So few wild places left in the eastern US.

[@jimlee9774]

@@wdanielmurphy You said it right. I'm from rural NC and we have been over run by people in the last 30 yrs. The night never is dark enough to see the stars. And they keep coming.

[@appalachiangunman9589]

It’s wild to think that most likely all of their influence came from not hearing any of it on radio, but from other musicians playing live.

[@cee-emm]

That's the difference between culture and pop culture.

[@johnbrinkman3001]

Here on a Cumberland Gap rabbit hole!

[@fweewoderick8051]

I live in Donegal, this music can be heard in the local bar every Friday evening......

[@lulumoon6942]

😍

[@jenbee3506]

Irish and Scottish Immigrants singing and playing what their ancestors taught them. I think their accents are a bit “mid-Atlantic” too. Do you hear it?

[@itzakehrenberg3449]

But not quite what the ancestors taught them. @@jenbee3506

[@spwb2k]

for the last 400 years.

[@stuart5656]

​@@jenbee3506ulster Scott's originally border reivers in Scotland went to the apalachain mountains

[@FANJG24]

Bascomb Lunsford's grandson is still playing this kind of music. He actually came to my Appalachian Music class at Appalachian State in Boone, NC to give us a sampling. So cool that this video exists!

[@user-yp5cv5dn1d]

Loveley to her that

[@redneckhippiefreak]

Watauga County is home to some of the greatest Bluegrass artists in the World. I would send Greetings from Deep Gap, but I am now living at the Sea Gates. I am happy to report, they have some good pickers down here on the coast too.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

David Hoffman has great footage of Bascomb on his channel that he filmed back in the 60s.

[@lisamariewhitaker3009]

My grandmother was friends with Bascom and my father used to sing with him. This clip is wonderful.

[@420Sandwhich]

What a small world this is. Did she tell you anything about him by chance?

[@VioletJoy]

That's so cool!

[@franklimper2677]

🙏🏼

[@Pteromandias]

Pretty cool. I knew some Whitakers when I was in high school just outside Asheville. Strange having first watched this years ago on another channel, a video recorded in the 1960s some time when he was an old man teaching the next generation. It looked so distant, remote, and long ago. And yet here is someone who knows someone who knows someone, who might well know someone I went to school with. Interesting also the feeling I got watching that other video, I actually found some of the dancers on facebook. Young kids in the video, old now, but still clogging.

[@humano_en_extincion]

The Gods keep him in eternal glory

[@albertadriftwood3612]

The young woman with the parlor guitar is quite fashionable.

[@tomroot7961]

I like the colorization. It makes it feel contemporary, as it was, recorded in real life by real folks, under the same blue sky, breathing the same air as now.

[@2010bigfathen]

Bascom did more to preserve our mountain mountain music than any other human that ever lived

[@TheFolkRevivalProject]

How about Jean Ritchie?

[@jimwilliams3816]

I don’t believe I ever had the chance to hear Bascom, but I have heard Ritchie play many times. Thanks for mentioning her.

[@shawntailor5485]

Looks like a mountain style fiddle like the one my grandad carved with a jackknife when he was 12 in 1904 . My most beloved heirloom.

[@katendress6142]

I was wondering about that, whether the shape was slightly different or if it was an artifact of the restoration of the video. Thank you for the information.

[@pipfox7834]

Yes making your own instruments was apparently not unusual. That's where the Appalachian Dulcimer (s) come from. One I own and play is leaf shaped, but some are oblong shaped.

[@shawntailor5485]

@@pipfox7834 I've always wanted another chance to try the dulcimer . I love the instrument and often listen to John Mcutcheon .

[@jameshorel1938]

I'd like to build one like this.

[@shawntailor5485]

@@katendress6142 the mountain style fiddles tended to have the front almost as wide as the back . Hand mades often have the bow notches slightly offset so you dont have as much bow angle .

[@bearbryant3495]

This is what my grandma would've called "old-timey music", not yet bluegrass but a precursor to it. All my people were from KY and VA.

[@zachb8012]

Crazy this exists. I am just kind of blow away that we can see Bascomb Lamar Lunsford himself. Guy left such a huge imprint on old time music, yet here he is playing his fiddle for us... while wearing the greaves of a medieval knight by the looks of it.

[@philiprose7942]

Hi, Those may be "snake bitin'" boots. My father had some. Which really makes this authentic because he obviously walked through some rugged country to record this video!

[@tarheelpatch3386]

Thier snake leggins my grandaddy wore them when he traveling on foot.Rattlesnakes, copperhead, various snakes common in NC mountains

[@johnnyp8979]

Yup, snake bite boots ! Gotta have them when walking in bushes...

[@michaellorah9051]

Half chaps by the looks of it. Old school cowboy style leg wear

[@cliveraybritton9005]

lots of love from England xxx Can we have more of these videos please x

[@brandonoconnor1079]

My family’s roots run deep in Madison County! My family has lived at the bottom of Doggett Mountain since before the revolutionary war.

[@XLRmusic2]

What a marvelous film, it's shot incredibly well for its time, and in general. The man was a natural director! A dancer, fiddler, director, lawyer, teacher and a song collector. How bout that?

[@donriffle1634]

Agree. They have a gun and an ax for props to set the stage. Nobody in Appalachia has these accoutrements sitting around the front stoop. Great theatre!

[@oliverheaviside2539]

@@donriffle1634 Are the gun and axe props, or just tools that everyone used in 1928 Appalachia?

[@andrewschwenke720]

@@donriffle1634 They probably did in 1928. You know this was old because hardly anybody plays banjo without picks nowadays

[@maddieb.4282]

@@donriffle1634are you seriously saying that people in 20’s Appalachia didn’t use guns or axes, or that they wouldn’t have them out on the porch for their own use??

[@pipfox7834]

@stephenschwenke720 singers often play banjo without picks as it's a softer sound. Especially if the voice is soft pitch like mine is. I did start out with picks but soon realised I could perform easier/sing and play better without. Admire anyone who can sing AND pick simultaneously...simpler songs I can do, but not tricky chord or rhythm changes!

[@earhart1000]

Bascon Lamar lusdorf. Principe de los Apalaches folk de Carolina N S . Lo Estudié hace 10 años Es un icono de la música Este. From Espain , Extremadura . Un saludo.👏👏👏👏

[@deirdreryan6147]

The guitarist and her banjo playing friend enter the scene. The fiddler greets the man by name and shakes his hand. The fiddler shakes the hand of the guitarist but neglects to greet the lady by name. She strums only the 4 highest (in pitch) strings of the guitar for the G and the D7. She does her job intently and smiles when the fiddler breaks out in an impromptu dance. Jut lovely to watch. ❤

[@deedebdoo]

That was proper. He wasn’t snubbing; he was showing deference. The etiquette until quite recently was for a man to let a woman decide if he could touch her. Her hand would be extended first, never his. A man was not supposed to reach to a woman. I kinda like the rule, especially for huggers!

[@deirdreryan6147]

Thank you so much for this very helpful insight into one aspect of 1920s American etiquette. @@deedebdoo ❤

[@customsongmaker]

​@@deedebdooThat's correct. Women throughout history were generally treated like royalty, above men.

[@maddieb.4282]

@@customsongmakerHAHAHAHAHHAAH that’s very funny, man. Social etiquette doesn’t tell you anything about how women were treated legally or behind closed doors.

[@customsongmaker]

@@maddieb.4282 American women currently have more legal rights and privileges than men. If you can't admit that, which we all see in front of us now, there's no use talking about the past either. You believe that all women in the history of the world were so weak and inferior that they allowed their own sons to abuse them and treat them as property. Because you're sick.

[@RusnakBanjo]

As a long time banjo player myself, i find it very interesting to note that the two banjo players are picking and not using stroke or , Clawhammer style. One is using two fingers the other uses three. I try to keep those picking styles alive by always teaching the basics of the Oldtime picking styles to all my Clawhammer students just so they’ll know them to pass on to others even though they may not prefer to use them themselves. Love the video. Thank you for posting.🪕❤️

[@ur1cat]

My dad played banjo like these men do. When I first heard the strumming style I thought the player didn’t know banjo that well.

[@xenwall]

This was my immediate thought as well, especially since modern picking is so strongly attributed to Scruggs. It's really piqued my interest.

[@JayDecayAE]

I use the oldtime two and three finger style for playing banjo, along with claw hammer. Claw hammer sounds fancy, but it really bottlenecks the type of music you can play on the banjo.

[@pipfox7834]

Great idea, good for you to pass on the knowledge. I've tried clawhammer style and it's difficult to get the hang of if you learned/got used to the standard picking style first.

[@eldonhagen1257]

Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers were immensely popular during the 1920s. Charlie Poole was a 3-finger banjo picker!! His group, along with the Carter Family were the first huge recording stars of the fledgling recording industry, and early definers of 'Country Music.' Clawhammer style is only one of many old-time styles and methods of playing banjo, although people wrongly assume it to be the main or only historical style. Ragtime and jazz banjoists often used plectrum.

[@cricketbug7390]

Well isn't this a priceless performance to get to experience before our very eyes! Mountain folks gettin' down, old school style! 💖 Makes me miss a time I never was a part of.

[@nicthemickatx]

That's the feeling of being robbed cousin. Your heritage is being stolen from you.

[@cricketbug7390]

True that! Thank God I was born Southern though! 😆 I'm an old soul, so I love all things from simpler, more normal times.

[@dawnclaibourne2183]

In this lifetime, anyway...

[@pierceh.5670]

I always miss the 20s too.

[@soap5393]

My grandpa brought a fiddle back from somewhere in Europe when he returned from serving as Cavalry in WWI - late first decade of the 1900s. He was already a relatively old man (30s) when he served. Anyway, the boots these guys are wearing in the film remind me of WWI riding boot and chaps, so I'd venture to say those boots stayed is style for at least a decade, until the time of this film in 1928. Interesting bit of history. Watching this I can also somewhat better picture in my mind him play his fiddle and maybe doing sort of this style music. As chance will have it my grandmother, his wife, played guitar too. Thanks for saving this treasure!

[@trs4437]

I have always loved Lunsford’s voice, particularly on “I Wish a Mole in the Ground.” This is simply an amazing gem of a recording.

[@ubermo1182]

Everyone looking their Saturday evening best. And a little demonstration of flat foot dancing to boot. Great restoration!

[@JohnTurner313]

Look at these folks, out in the dirt and scrub but wearing coats, vest, tie and a dress. That's classy! Love this!

[@siobhandunne4701]

Wearing their Sunday best

[@roballen5720]

I like his leather gaiters

[@teacherofteachers1239]

One of the greatest contributions I've seen on KZbin. This should have so many views. Now, imagine if these folks who are playing could have seen a film of people playing music almost a hundred years before them, about 1833 (this would be only four or five years before the first photograph to include a person). History is moving faster than we might notice. It's a short, crazy ride, man - enjoy it.

[@nba2kaii12]

We have to go backwards we are heading for self destruction

[@jeremiahedwards7991]

My great grandmother lived in the Appalachians in North Carolina and later in Tennessee but a lot of stories she would tell were of gatherings like these. Her dad would start playing on the porch and other musicians nearby would hear the sound from around the way and walk up to join in. There were unofficial banjo competitions near her and as a result a lot of songs like these would get passed down sometimes with different iterations or different ways of playing it. There was a story she’d even told once of an old man that had passed away and they’d held the funeral in their home for people to come by and pay their respects with the body on display before burial.

[@douglasweber5241]

Funerals were usually held in the homes up untill 65 years ago in my family. Some were close to Atlanta, GA.

[@mdhj67]

Like the simplified shape of that fiddle. It's gorgeous.

[@johnglover4453]

That fiddle player is triple threat. Singin, dancin, n playin up a storm! This snippet in time is a timeless gem :)

[@anniefannycharles9951]

I'm so proud of these people. My people❤

[@lindseywalker6925]

I'm proud these are my people

[@prodigygirl1]

My ancestors were among the first Appalachian settlers.

[@lulumoon6942]

👍🙏

[@kevinhonaker9468]

It’s always been said that Earl Scruggs introduced the three finger roll style of Banjo picking but, that video was made in 1929, pretty sure that was before his time

[@ProfesserLuigi]

It's been said by people who don't really know. Scrugg's style has a very particular rhythm and flow to it which defined the bluegrass picking style, but the three finger style and forward roll predate him by some time. It seems relatively common around the North Carolina region, to my knowledge.

[@indus7841]

@@ProfesserLuigi interesting, thanks.

[@ProfesserLuigi]

@@indus7841 Notable examples are Charlie Poole and Snuffy Jenkins. Uncle Dave Macon also does some three finger picking but it's closer in origin to the classic banjo and minstrel styles, to my knowledge.

[@eternallife9786]

It's called clawhammer picking Scruggs style is just the hybrid of that

[@MartinReiter143]

@@eternallife9786clawhammer style is characterized by downward strokes with the fingers curled so that the face of the nails strike the strings. From what I can see, especially in the close up at the end, neither player is playing clawhammer. Nor is Scruggs style a variant of clawhammer.

[@Ukepa]

beautiful restoration.... Lunsford is really good fiddling, singing and even dancing!!!!

[@ronlitz9055]

I saw evidence to this in the early 2000"s, loved it, embraced it, cherished it. I am from Canada. Love your history.

[@petergroverd6626]

Wonderful Historical Music. A blend of Irish and Scottish that was took to the America's from the European side of the Atlantic. I do hope one day I can visit that glorious area of these people . Also I admire the Clog dancers. Best regards from Chester, England

[@joekhatib3798]

If you get the chance you can come into North Carolina, Western Virginia and of course West Virginia where there are fairly famous festivals usually held in the Summertime! I have been to Clifftop in West Virginia and Galax in western Virginia!!! If you have been to the Scottish Higlands this land with its mountains and hollers will remind you a lot of that part of Scotland! I hope you get a chance to come across the pond!!! Peace out! ✌ 👍🙋‍♂

[@nicthemickatx]

Come and stay and help us fix the mess. Our ancestors got out to build something, the rest stayed to fix what was. Still brothers and know when all falls run to the hills. It's in our blood and there's lots of people trying to get you to forget that m

[@janetcallanan7020]

Darling you'd be welcomed at so many hearths

[@rightanglo8911]

Is there not an English influence also?

[@halfdome4158]

@@nicthemickatx Great comment. Perfectly stated.❤

[@jaykay1053]

Really interesting to read these comments from those of you who understand this music in your heart. I love the feel of it and enjoy hearing you all discuss your area of the world and the culture you share. I feel privileged to stop in here for a visit. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@dtm8820]

I've always lived in Appalachia! Always will! Though I think I might go further south where it's warmer when I'm older! Right now I love livin in the northern panhandle of west Virginia!

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

You are very welcome here in the Deep South, just don't bring any of that Yankee sentiment down here! ;) Virginia used to be great.

[@megwenger8756]

Stirs the the soul TY for posting and to those who added comments. Our ancestors live on in us. How I wish I kept playing, but I just kept reverting back to where my soul would take me to the irk of my mundane classical trained teachers: playing my grandfather’s violin stripped of its shoulder rest, joyfully hitting those fiddle tunes again and again determined not to let my fingers run away as my bowing tried to keep up. With a smile, I did notice the brakes the fiddler would take as he called and sang out his tune… very wise…

[@nancyhamer949]

Inspiring music that still lives in our hearts.

[@davidholton9667]

So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello

[@PsychoXXI]

It's hard to believe that these people are dead when I'm watching them play.

[@Elbenzo64]

Ever heard of Nirvana?

[@annapoole132]

I grew up deep in the mountains of WV and was surrounded by this good music and the good people! I am very proud of my roots! Thank you for this channel!

[@kastonian69]

My family is from Southern West Virginia I need to explore my culture some more...

[@johnnyp8979]

WOW This is fantastic that it is so well kept and exists...! Film that is almost from 100 years ago, in the infancy of recording music/film, etc... And the contraption recording this was was probably NOT compact and possibly acetate/wax, imagine all the troubles carrying it and managing it out in field! THANKS for having this available 🥰 !

[@johntabler349]

The audio and video restoration is phenomenal

[@ruthgodfrey6955]

What a precious sweet time to live.

[@user-ov7su9bo8u]

When I would go to lundford music in oak ridge TN it was an education. I play 40s jump swing now at 67 yrs of age. Great video

[@triggerfish999]

They’re mighty proud of their knee high boots…. Interesting period detail you don’t see on movies set in that period (that and the Dapper Dan hair).

[@davidgold5961]

I believe the man standing is wearing leather “ankle guards” for protection from snakebite. The man sitting with his legs crossed does indeed appear to be wearing long boots.

[@johnnyp8979]

In the area, lots of snakes and since persons had to transverse from one house to another, snake bites were very prevalent. My grandparents/great parents had pairs of boots similar and all kinds of knowledge about combating nature.

[@missmerrily4830]

What a privilege to be able to see this! Thank goodness there are still people who care enough to preserve such gems!

[@judyingram-kh1vm]

My Dad played bluegrass music. He played the banjo, guitar, bass, & French Harp. This brings back so many good memories. I'm here in ne Oklahoma and I'm really enjoying y'alls music.

[@ulfricstormcloak5080]

Appalachian music just makes me feel happy

[@thepressleygirls]

Such an amazing glimpse into this time! Awesome, thank you for sharing!

[@TheFolkRevivalProject]

Thanks for watching!

[@earhart1000]

Llevo años siguiendo a Bascon Lamar música apalachense de los Estados de carolina N y S. Estas imágenes en color son preciosas. From Spain Bravo!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@ADKMPTN]

Huge bluegrass fan and am so grateful that this exists. Grew up on this in the Adirondack Mountains.

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

Incredible. True American music.

[@darrengodfrey1614]

Absolutely beautiful and priceless to see and hear this! God bless you all! ❤️

[@wheredidthetimego8087]

This is wonderful!! My grandfather who played the fiddle and his two oldest sons played guitars. They would play for local dances.

[@Nekrist666]

I feel so happy to be able to watch this kind of old musical footages, a window to the distant past.

[@Abebe345]

A treat. Getting to hear the accents, style, greetings, then tuning into playing, singing and dancing, getting close to time travel. Great to see.

[@ShunyamNiketana]

Absolutely beautiful. Each instrument plays an important role in this wonderful language.

[@debracole6587]

My Dad listened to Blue Grass. Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs were two. This reminds me of that. We used to listen to the Grand Ole Opry

[@jedgarren2901]

I am from East Tennessee, I live a few miles from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I grew up hearing this music, Everyone in my family plays an instrument, and our family get-togethers always feature music.

[@UncommonEyes]

See that leather up to the knees? Rattlesnakes, copperheads, etc., not just for show. Fun to watch them having so much fun with the universal language.😄

[@rnjohnemt]

I noticed the leg armor right away.... I'm thinking they would need protection from brush and brambles while on horseback, more so than needing protection from snakes....not saying snakes wouldn't be a concern though.

[@davey820051]

My granddad delivered mail in southwest Virginia about 30 miles north of Galax (home of the Old Time Fiddler's Convention) beginning in the late '20s (on mule back early in his career, in a Jeep later on). He wore half chaps like those on the gents in the video, mostly in the winter for warmth and to keep the snow out of his shoes. My dad and is brothers grew up hearing this kind of music and played fiddle, banjo, squeeze box accordion, mandolin and guitar. This video put a big smile on my face.

[@UncommonEyes]

@@davey820051 Those were the days😃

[@jackiestoff5896]

What an absoulute delight to discover this treasure in 2023. Thank you from New Zealand.

[@oldsagefields]

To actually see then-young musicians playing the music we hear on 78s is thrilling. Thank you for posting this.

[@user-pe1zs2pn4n]

I noticed several people in here spelling Bascom wrong. when my dad was in the army in the late 50s, his best friend there was an Indian named Bascom. Dad was from central Kentucky. Bascom was from pretty much the same area or maybe Tennessee, I can’t remember. I was very young when we went to hunt him down. I have an old photo book and almost every picture in there is of my dad and Bascom. Hardly any of any of the other guys I remember when I was a kid and we went to go see him up in the mountains. When we got there, he had died not long before. I think it may have been a couple of months I can’t really recall. But he had rolled a tractor over on the side of a hill, that’s the first time I ever remember my father crying. My oldest brother was named Bascom after my dad‘s best friend in the army. I just remembered part of the family there, I think there were two young girls who were about me and my brother‘s age. Their names was Holly and Molly. I think they were twins, but I cannot remember. I always wish I could have remembered them and looked them up now.

[@donniewilliams2484]

Why is he not in The Bluegrass Hall of Fame! Every bit as important as the Carter Family!

[@dorindacontreras1094]

Old-time music comes from the soul…the heart… this is so beautiful. Note how this is the precursor to bluegrass.

[@Highlander.7]

This is beautiful, emotional music. Stirs up my soul. Back from a time of true culture.

[@kaitlinchristian53]

I live in Swannanoa which is just outside of Asheville. Im from Alabama, and my PawPaw always used to play bluegrass. The first time my parents came to visit me in NC, they stayed at a cabin on Doggett Mountain. I had no idea about this song. I feel so connected to bluegrass in general, but this song is so cool to me because of my experience with my parents.

[@lulumoon6942]

So very much has changed in 105 years... Proud to have known such family before the future arrived.🙏

[@jonsoulfire6891]

Astounding footage thank you so much from a music historian this is the kind of time capsule I love. ✌️❤️🎶

[@woodybrison]

I realize this is probably a waste of breath, but the moving strips at the side don't add anything, they detract

[@bryan.conrad]

Whenever you see a fat patch of rosin dust creeping onto the fingerboard you know you're about to hear a banger.

[@darkhorsejim]

Still sounds amazing in 2024! Fantastic recording under rather primitive conditions. Love the nearby rifle to complete the scene - Olé!

[@pipfox7834]

Fantastic! Five string banjo player here, from Australia. Motivates me to get back to playing again, so much fun- thanks for uploading.

[@mediaondisplay3089]

This is really cool, I've kinda been into mountain music ever since I saw 'o brother where art thou". I'm glad people are trying to preserve it 😊

[@kaliyuga2758]

People just played for the joy of playing music. Wonderful.

[@Tenskwatawa4U]

"We never played this together, HONEST! Now all we need is Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family!" 😂

[@johnhuwroberts7766]

Love those boots! Brilliant video …thanks x

[@johnnyp8979]

SNAKE BITE BOOTS

[@BasementBluesmasters]

Love this…❤

[@kingdoc3262]

Love the diversity of American music. I wish music stations and record companies were mindful of the same. Variety Love Appalachian music From New York Living in Caribbean now

[@BirdieSenpai]

My dad's ancestors were vast majority Ulster Scots Presbyterians who settled in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and became Southern Baptists (still Calvinist, of course), and they all played that old time fiddle and banjo music I was raised on. Our faith, our music, and our way of life on in the present through the traditions we've passed on, as well as the stories about ancestors long gone we still tell every now and then. I can tell you about great grandma who used to pick the banjo for me, 3rd great grandpa who whipped the Yankees at Chickamauga, 5th great grandpa who settled Franklin, NC in 1820, 7th great grandpa who sailed from Ulster to Pennsylvania, 9th great grandpa who fought for King Billy, 11th great grandpa who fought against King Charles, 13th great grandpa who moved from Lowland Scotland to Ulster, and 15th great grandpa who followed John Knox into the Calvinist faith.

[@aidancollins1591]

What an absolutely vile heritage, constantly siding with oppressors. First you colonized the Irish, then the Americas, then fought for slavery. If my family were Ulster Scots who supported the Confederacy, I would be ashamed.

[@EndCorruption1]

Not to far away from Irish folk music.

[@moffphc9864]

That's where it would of come from heavy influenced from Scot/irsh

[@retroblue69696]

thats where they came from.

[@retroblue69696]

@@moffphc9864yup cause they are irish/scot descent.

[@cecillunsford8417]

Bascom Lunsford my dad's cousin

[@patbrennan6572]

A big thank you to Keith Richards for taping this, thanks again Keith.

[@JaemanEdwards]

Love it. This is as authentic as it get. Respect to these pioneers from New Zealand.

[@TheFolkRevivalProject]

Here are the lyrics. It would be great if people could help fill in the gaps! 1:26 Runnin' and hollerin' around by the _____________________________ Dogget's Gap 1:37 Breaking up the ground and I pull a pinch of________ I'm a-getting something started in the Dogget's Gap 1:49 Walnut bark and walnut sap, colors of the stockings in the Doggett's Gap 2:08 The old man's a-cussin' but I don't give a rap 'cause the women wear the britches in the Doggett's Gap. 2:20 Run home, boys, and carry on, pap, I'm a-goin' a start cussin' in the Dogget's Gap 2:38 I reined up a filly and I give a little rap, and I rid it like the devil through the Doggett's Gap 2:46 Got a bad feist and a-fetchin' it to yell, and the boys'll run like a bat outta hell 2:57 I've got a girl in the Doggett's Gap, she don't mind a-sittin' in her sweetheart's lap

[@johnschneider4160]

Podnuh, you gotta be an Appalachian to understand him!😁👍

[@adamprice3466]

@2:49 run like a bat out of hell

[@thechessclub8527]

**Running and hollering down by the gap, while my bride stay sitting in the Doggetts Gap

[@thechessclub8527]

Got a bad feist and a fetching it to yell*

[@rowdymcjohnson8641]

the first line is hard to hear but the only thing that makes sense is "Runnin' and hollerin' around by the Gap, while my bride stay sitting in Doggett's Gap".

[@Lostmychops]

This is amazing footage. Thank you for the upload!

[@reneecarter6702]

Gosh a year before my Grandad was born in Hartwell Georgia. ❤ My grandad was the best grandad in the whole world

[@will420ist]

Fantasizing about going back in time with my guitar and shredding solos.

[@360-media]

What a fantastic contribution to KZbin., I really enjoyed the rare glimpse into time and across cultures. Being a music lover of this genre was icing on the cake. Subscribed.

[@sumo55sumo]

Wow! Love to see the video before restoration!

[@christophermoon64]

I lived in the Appalachian Mountains in my early teenage years and was in love with blues and folk music. I jammed some acoustic blues and bluegrass on guitar and 5-string banjo. Mandolin, too. These ppl remind me a bit of my neighbors who sold fresh meat to everyone in town, I worked in the butcher shop. Learned exactly what scrapple is. Learned what mountain folk were like. I was always a bit outside, I was a city boy, tho i love the country. Anyhow, I've always been able to pick along with Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, and blues like Mississippi John Hurt, I was always surrounded by bluegrass fellas.

[@floraline7153]

My entire family on dad's side were from Wilkes County and Alexander County in NC back to the early 1700s. It is amazing to hear that someone a hundred years ago was non-rhotic like the last generation of my family to be so, surviving in my aunt and uncle now that my father has passed. We have been in Georgia for a few generations but the accent stayed in them, sadly disappearing from the words spoken by my city educated cousins, my sister, and myself, and all of us are now in our 40s and 50s. As for the music, there is something that gives me a deep longing for home when I hear it, and of course, there is a reason. My ultimate dream is to get back there one day, somehow, to stay and to live out my days. Amen.

[@sandramorey2529]

A little time capsule. Thanks so much.

[@GentlemanLife-Beyotch]

True American tradition, greatly appreciate the upload!

[@stevenmarcato]

It's the first ever film of Appalachian music. What you see on KZbin is the transfert to video.

[@ruthgodfrey6955]

I feel so fortunate to see this. Its good ouality for real old, nice color. Dear good people !!

[@CSTMJAHB]

I've loved Bascom Lamar Lunsford's voice since the first time I heard it nearing 30 years ago. Guess I had no idea what he looked like till now.

[@cecillunsford8417]

He made and sung Mt. Drew

[@jontalbot1]

Ultimate down home. Completely charming

[@vonnscottbair]

Good Evening: Amazing to think that in 5 years, one of the first music videos will celebrate its 100th anniversary...