Sol Korine

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash

Sol Korine, Blaine Dunlap

Hamper McBee

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

Mouth Music

Sol Korine, 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.

Uncle Dave Macon

Sol Korine, Blaine Dunlap

Roy Acuff, Sid Harkreader

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.

Sometimes It's Gonna Hurt

Sol Korine, Blaine Dunlap

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".