PUBLISHED: Sep 15, 2011
DESCRIPTION:
Thomas A. Dorsey's "Peace In the Valley," sung by Joe Savage, former muleskinner and Parchman Farm inmate, on the levee in Greenville, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop, on August 22, 1978. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit http://culturalequity.org. [02.17.09]