This 1947 video may be of interest to some here.
Hope it hasn’t been posted before.
Thanks for that one Bro..
Always a joy to see Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee in the flesh, so to speak.
Very enjoyable.
Slan,
D. 
It is truly sad how little I know about this style of music. The only two names I recognized were Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Searching Youtube for Alan Lomax has turned up some nice results. Think I am going to have to look on amazon for some of his recordings.
Good crack will abound…
I find you tube to be a better source than Amazon…
Welcome to American..pardon the expression..Folk Music…
Huge field…so much beauty…
Don’t get me started…
Slan,
D. 
Thanks for that post 
That’s my neck of the woods. It really took me back.
When I was a teenager I learned to flat foot from an old guy who danced just like that old man in the video. In fact, a couple of years ago I saw him at a birthday party, they were making music and he and I danced once again. He may be up in his eighties now, but he can still dance! And, my grandaddy had a banjo he’d made that looked like the one the guy with the big straw hat played.
The only tune I didn’t know was the second in the square dance set. Ya can’t beat Sally Ann for dancin’ or Wondrous Love for worship-in fact I played it just last week at church and everybody sang. 
Strange thing is, I recognized many of the songs. Old Joe Clark was something I and a friend sang in second grade for some kind of show and hearing it was like an old friend. John Henry some of the others were also familiar. They are back in my head just like the “Chicken reel” (that one is thanks to Foghorn Leghorn on Looney toons). Part to do with my music teachers in school, part environment, and who knows what else. Some how the older performers just weren’t a part of the package.
The real odd ball in my head is the love for a Canadian song “Bluenose”*.
Well, I’ll have that refrain in my head all day…
Bluenose, the ocean knows her name
Sailors know how proud a ship was she
Bluenose, leading in the wind
Racing every way on the sea
Time to look up who Ryan’s Fancy is…
*It’s the ship on the back of the Canadian dime.
I was singing folk songs and playing the guitar in a coffee shop in Bloomington, Indiana, circa 1962, when who should step through the door but Pete Seeger, carrying his banjo, of course. He was obviously near the IU campus for a concert. I didn’t do any more singing that evening, if I recall correctly. College students were certainly excited about folk music during those times, and Pete Seeger was one of our heroes.