The Story Of American Folk Music 1

The first of a number of extracts from a 3 hour documentary on American folk music. This episode picks up the story with John Lomax and his "discovery" of Huddie Ledbetter. It then features Woody Guthrie and the seeds of the protest movement, before looking at Pete Seeger and the politics of the left.
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