Across the Blue Ridge #148 - Dorothea Lange, Reynolda House, Music Of The Dust Bowl and The Great Depression

Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC is hosting an exhibition of work by the great Dust Bowl and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange and some of her contemporaries.  The exhibition includes Lange's famous “Migrant Mother” photo, perhaps the best known documentary photograph in the United States.  Across the Blue Ridge collaborated with the museum in presenting a concert of Dust Bowl and Depression era songs. Guest performers were Dom Flemons, Alice Gerrard, Kay Justice and Terri McMurray.  This week we hear excerpts from that event, plus historic recordings reflecting both hard times and hope. We hear a little about the biographical film “Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk Of Lightning”. And we get context and background on the music and on Dorothea Lange's career and remarkable talent.  It's an exciting, multi-layered hour of music, history, and commentary.

Playlist

1. Down On Penny's Farm
   Bentely Boys
   Hard Times In The Country V.2
   County
    
2. Rambling Round
   Woody Guthrie
   This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings
   Smithsonian Folkways
    
3. Cotton Mill Blues
   Lee Brothers
   Hard Times Come Again No More V.2
   Yazoo
    
4. No Dough Blues
   Blind Blake
   Hard Times Come Again No More V.2
   Yazoo
    
5. Interview - Benita Van Winkle
   Benita Van Winkle
   ATBR recording
    
6. Farm Relief
   Uncle Dave Macon
   Hard Times In The Country V.2
   County
    
7. Interview - Phil Archer
   Phil Archer
   ATBR recording
    
8. Break 1 - Devil In The Strawstack
   Paul Brown & Dom Flemons
   ATBR recording
    
9. Summer's Almost Gone
   Paul Brown, Terri McMurray, Dom Flemons
   ATBR recording
    
10. Cotton Mill Girls
    Alice Gerrard, Kay Justice, Terri McMurray
    ATBR recording
     
11. Mining Camp Blues
    Alice Gerrard, Kay Justice, Terri McMurray, Paul Brown, Joe DeJarnette
    ATBR recording
     
12. Miner's Lullaby
    Kay Justice & Alice Gerrard
    ATBR recording
     
13. Break 2 - Dancing In The Sunny South
    Paul Brown & Dom Flemons
    ATBR recording
     
14. There's A Brown Skinned Girl Down The Road Somewhere
    Dom Flemons
    ATBR recording
     
15. Black Woman
    Dom Flemons
    ATBR recording
     
16. Steel Pony Blues
    Dom Flemons
    ATBR recording