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Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam Jackson 1976

  • 1976-01-01
  • 29m
  • Tom Davenport
  • English
  • Davenport Films
  • Documentary, Music
A portrait of Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson --black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living "busking" on the street and performing in patent-medicine shows touring southern towns. Footage includes excerpts from one of his last medicine shows, videotaped at a county fair in 1972, and material filmed near his home in South Carolina in 1975. The performance includes harmonica solos, songs, a parody of a chanted sermon, folktales and reminiscences, and three buck dances.

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