Anthony Wall makes a six-stage musical journey, from east to west, across the southern states, meeting. at each stop. the local celebrities who keep the traditional music of their region alive.
' White people used to come down out of the mountains to sit and play with us and try and learn whatever we did. Black folks was the ones that played this mountain music, what you call bluegrass today, before white people got hold of It.
'Course ain't no ene gonna agree with you, but I know. I remember back when I was a little kid and they was playing the same thing, just what we called mountain music.'
JOHN JACKSON
1: Music from the Mountains and the Mines
A visit to the Appalachians, the home of bluegrass, Wiley and Zeke Morris , Woodrow Roberts and John Jackson. Producer DAVID EPPS