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Film, Video Conversation with Walter Parks: Haunting Swamp Hollers from Georgia

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Title

  • Conversation with Walter Parks: Haunting Swamp Hollers from Georgia

Summary

  • Walter Parks was raised in Jacksonville, Florida. A consummate guitarist, he formed the duo The Nudes in 1991, and spent much of the 1990s touring with them around the U.S. The Nudes toured as a supporting act for Woodstock legend Richie Havens, and after the duo's breakup Parks was enlisted as Havens's guitarist and right-hand man. With Havens, Walter performed Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall and The Cannes Film Festival. With his trio Swamp Cabbage, Walter has performed The Breminale Festival in Germany and toured Spain twice. Through his deep interest in the music of his native region, he has become an expert on the American Folklife Center's Francis Harper collection of folk music of the Okefenokee Swamp region of Georgia. For the Homegrown 2020 series, he performed an entire program of material based on field recordings from the AFC's collections.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2021-11-12.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Homegrown from Home. 71
  • -  Walter Parks, Stephen Winick.
  • -  Recorded on 2021-11-12.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697901

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Walter Parks: Haunting Swamp Hollers from Georgia. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-12, 2021. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697901/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2021) Conversation with Walter Parks: Haunting Swamp Hollers from Georgia. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697901/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Walter Parks: Haunting Swamp Hollers from Georgia. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-12, 2021. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697901/>.