Review: film/ Morgan Sexton (KY) Banjo Player

Subject: RE: Review: film/ Morgan Sexton (KY) Banjo Player
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 07 Sep 10 - 01:20 PM

Thanks for the thread title amendment, Kat!

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: Review: film/ Morgan Sexton
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 10 - 12:51 PM

That is priceless...how wonderful it is available to so many,now. Thank you!

Subject: RE: Review: film/ Morgan Sexton
From: Melissa
Date: 07 Sep 10 - 12:01 PM

I would not have found this on my own and I love it.
Thank you

Subject: RE: Review: film/ Morgan Sexton
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 07 Sep 10 - 11:49 AM

From the start page:

Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award for his "amazingly pure and unaffected singing and playing style." In this program, the eighty-year-old Sexton shares his life and music. He recounts how a series of family tragedies forced him to go to work while still a boy and tells of his days gathering crops, logging timber, cutting railroad ties, and of his later work in the coal mines.

Morgan and his nephew Lee Sexton talk about learning music from their elders and each other, and the old days when, after a hard day's work, they would "roll up the rug" to play music and dance with the neighbors. Intercut with these stories are Morgan's renditions of his favorite songs, including "Little Birdie," "Wagner's Lad," "Bonnie Blue Eyes," "London City Where I Did Dwell," and "Beautiful Doll."

Subject: RE: Review: film/ Morgan Sexton
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 07 Sep 10 - 11:49 AM

It's the featured film at the moment at http://www.folkstreams.net/, to get to its page there directly, go to http://www.folkstreams.net/film,216.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll have to watch that one.

~ Becky

Subject: Review: film/ Morgan Sexton
From: GUEST,Kiyohide Kunizaki
Date: 07 Sep 10 - 04:23 AM

from Tokyo, Japan

I saw this film at FOLK STREAM with the transcript.
A beautiful movie.

Thanks

kiyohide