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Bluegrass Country Soul

  • July 1972
  • 1hr

    26mins

  • Documentary
  • Music
  • Directed by

    Albert Ihde,

    Starring

    Earl Scruggs,

    Jimmy Martin,

    J.D. Crowe,

    Chubby Wise

    ...

    Capturing the sights, sounds, and magic of Carlton Haney’s 1971 Labor Day Festival in Camp Springs, North Carolina; a three-day outdoor festival—the first of its kind—featuring bluegrass veterans and future stars alike sharing the primitive wood and cinder block stage. More than just capturing one of the largest bluegrass festivals of that decade, this documentary is also an interesting mixture of live performances, interviews, impromptu jam sessions and crowd footage of live music set in a small town surrounded by the now long gone red clay and tobacco shacks of North Carolina.