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Stev187 - Posted - 03/07/2007: 22:33:35
On a different thread, we've discussed the Alan Lomax film Appalachian Journey. About 26:30 into the film, a fiddler and banjo player are featured.
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,128
They are listed as "James Thomas" and "Odell Thomas."
I could swear that's Joe and Odell Thompson. 
Could Lomax have made that big of a mistake?
Steve
Flint, MI
janolov - Posted - 03/08/2007: 12:53:21
I've just looked at the film again. The film was from 1991, but the movie clips could be older. I think "James" and Odell are younger in the film, it may be from the 80's. I have only seen newr films/clips and pictures of them so it hard to say, but the music is very close to the music of Joe and Odell.
Janolov
gailg64 - Posted - 03/08/2007: 13:07:58
Hi Steve,
I can't seem to see the film on the site, but I'm pretty sure you are correct. That sounds familiar. Alan Lomax was here and I believe that he did film them around that time.
Gail
quote:
Originally posted by Stev187
On a different thread, we've discussed the Alan Lomax film Appalachian Journey. About 26:30 into the film, a fiddler and banjo player are featured.
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,128
They are listed as "James Thomas" and "Odell Thomas."
I could swear that's Joe and Odell Thompson. Could Lomax have made that big of a mistake?
Steve
Flint, MI
Stev187 - Posted - 03/08/2007: 13:15:08
quote:
Originally posted by janolov
I've just looked at the film again. The film was from 1991, but the movie clips could be older. I think "James" and Odell are younger in the film, it may be from the 80's.
Many of those clips must pre-date the 1991 production. Tommy Jarrell, who is in the film often, died 6 years before then. Odell would have been alive when the film was produced, but I think that the film clips must have been taken earlier.
I never met Odell (and I have not met Joe) and I've only seen a few pictures. But that's them. I wonder how they could have messed that up!
Steve
Flint, MI
fretless - Posted - 03/08/2007: 13:41:38
quote:
Originally posted by Stev187
On a different thread, we've discussed the Alan Lomax film Appalachian Journey. About 26:30 into the film, a fiddler and banjo player are featured.
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,128
They are listed as "James Thomas" and "Odell Thomas."
I could swear that's Joe and Odell Thompson. Could Lomax have made that big of a mistake?
Steve
Flint, MI
Yes, that is Joe and Odell Thompson, and yes, Lomax made that big of a mistake.
Marianne
oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 03/08/2007: 18:09:02
You hand your scribbled notes to a typist, and they come back nice and neat. Then you read them while thinking more about getting out the words without tripping all over your tongue than about the content. It happens all the time.
The Whiskey Before Breakfast variations and a few tunes in "F" tuning are now available on the web at:
http://home.thegrid.net/~fjbrad/id20.html
Stev187 - Posted - 03/08/2007: 22:40:07
quote:
Originally posted by oldwoodchuckb
It happens all the time.
Yeah, I suppose it does. But I think that was a pretty big error. Joe & Odell are important figures, and the black stringband connection was an important part of the point Lomax was trying to make in that section of the narrative. I am sure that a grad student or volunteer could have been responsible for the telestrator error (no knocking those two callings--I spend many years as both), but during a final edit, someone should have noticed.
Somebody would have noticed if the white fiddler were credited as "Timmy Jameson."
Steve
Flint, MI
