A trip through the bayou with host Aly Bain. Queen Ida, Boozoo Chavis, Savoy-Doucet Band, Wayne Toups, Dewey Balfa and more. Raymond Kane is featured along with Sonny Chillingworth, Ledward Kaapana and others. Includes Bela Fleck, Abner Jay, Seamus Egan, Bill Keith, David Holt, and others, showing off a potpourri of banjo styles and genres. The visual centerpieces are portraits of Storyville's prostitutes photographed by E.J. Bellocq.
Soundtrack combines a rich medley of ragtime, blues, early jazz, etc.
Features the music of Buddy Bolden and Jelly Roll Morton. Features Clark Kessinger, Kilby Snow, Jimmie Driftwood, Coon Creek Girls, more. Alan Lomax photo A tour of New Orleans with stops at Preservation Hall, the Glass House, and the streets with the Creole Revelers. A visit to some of the old dances in New England and the callers and musicians who make them happen. Features Joe Cormier, Harvey Beaton, many others.