Joe Savage & Walter Brown: Levee-camp hollers (1978)

Former levee camp workers (and, in Savage’s case, Parchman Farm inmate) trade levee camp holler verses on the levee in Greenville, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long, August 22, 1978. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit . []