Blaine Dunlap

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a cappella performance styles as well as unique expressive vocal forms that have evolved as part of daily life, work, and play: hollerin’, jump-rope rhymes, “eephing,” nonsense songs, auctioneering, drill sergeant’s patter and others.

A candid portrait of the late Tennessee ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.

Uncle Dave Macon, also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.

The quiet town of Smithville, Tennessee prepares for their fourth annual Fiddler's Jamboree festival, where fiddle-player Frazier Moss takes on an up-and-coming musician named Paul Chrisman in a special competition to be held at the end of the fair.

Oklahoma is rodeo country. Sometimes Its Gonna Hurt is a film about the toughest of all rodeo events-- bullriding, and how young riders grow up to become bullriders. It was commissioned by the PBS series, "Matters of Life and Death".

Florence Mayfield, an elderly lifelong resident of East Dallas, reminisces about the neighborhood and the many changes it has seen during her lifetime.

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a cappella performance styles as well as unique expressive vocal forms that have evolved as part of daily life, work, and play: hollerin’, jump-rope rhymes, “eephing,” nonsense songs, auctioneering, drill sergeant’s patter and others.

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a cappella performance styles as well as unique expressive vocal forms that have evolved as part of daily life, work, and play: hollerin’, jump-rope rhymes, “eephing,” nonsense songs, auctioneering, drill sergeant’s patter and others.

A candid portrait of the late Tennessee ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.

Uncle Dave Macon, also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.

The quiet town of Smithville, Tennessee prepares for their fourth annual Fiddler's Jamboree festival, where fiddle-player Frazier Moss takes on an up-and-coming musician named Paul Chrisman in a special competition to be held at the end of the fair.

Oklahoma is rodeo country. Sometimes Its Gonna Hurt is a film about the toughest of all rodeo events-- bullriding, and how young riders grow up to become bullriders. It was commissioned by the PBS series, "Matters of Life and Death".

Oklahoma is rodeo country. Sometimes Its Gonna Hurt is a film about the toughest of all rodeo events-- bullriding, and how young riders grow up to become bullriders. It was commissioned by the PBS series, "Matters of Life and Death".

Florence Mayfield, an elderly lifelong resident of East Dallas, reminisces about the neighborhood and the many changes it has seen during her lifetime.

Florence Mayfield, an elderly lifelong resident of East Dallas, reminisces about the neighborhood and the many changes it has seen during her lifetime.

A film portrait of Stanley Maupin who cleans sidewalks at night for the Dallas Department of Sanitation.