Musicians
A Grammy winner, two-time Emmy nominee, and United States Artists Fellow, Dom is known as The American Songster. His most recent album is Traveling Wildfire (2023). Dom will also narrate the film.
Cristina’s slide guitar and clawhammer have been featured on Rolling Stone Country, Western AF, and performance spaces nationwide. Her most recent album is Make Myself Me Again (2022).
One of the few Black fiddlers still performing, Earl is a legend among those who know old-time country music. He hosts the weekly old-time jam at the Floyd Country Store.
A violinist, guitarist, and pianist, Tracy's number-one hit single “Mother, Mother” appeared on her 1996 Grammy-nominated album The Burdens of Being Upright. She is the founder of Melodeon Music House, an education program for young musicians.
Nora has been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, at the Newport Folk Festival, and on the podcast Dolly Parton’s America Her most recent album is Long Time to Be Gone (2022).
Production Team
Emily Cohen, Producer / Director
Emily Cohen follows her curiosity. She is executive director of KHOL, Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s award-winning public radio station. She briefly studied fiddle at East Tennessee State University where she performed Liza Jane as part of her audition. Her film Camina Conmigo (Walk with Me) was a winner in the If/Then x Redford Center Nature Connection pitch competition at the 2023 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Dan Gutstein, Producer / Director
Dan Gutstein tells it blank verse lovely as vocalist for punk band Joy on Fire. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks — including POOR GAL, about the “Liza Jane” family of songs, which was published in November 2023 by University Press of Mississippi — as well as stories and poems that have appeared in American Scholar, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and The Iowa Review, among others.
Erich Roland, Director of Photography
Erich Roland is a widely experienced cinematographer. He filmed the music documentaries Deep Blues and Gospel According to Al Green, and was Director of Photography on It Might Get Loud, Entertaining the Troops, The Final Year, Waiting For Superman, From the Sky Down, Steep, and He Named Me Malala. He was camera operator on Academy Award-winning Driving Miss Daisy and cinematographer for The Johnstown Flood, which also won an Oscar for best documentary short subject.
Kenny Siegal, Sound ENgineer
Audio engineer and owner of Old Soul Studios Kenny Siegal will be leading the sound engineering and recording, using classic vintage analog equipment and tape machines in tandem with cutting-edge, industry-standard digital recording gear. Siegal has produced albums for dozens of notable musicians including Ratatat, The Wiyos, Beirut, Neko Case, Langhorne Slim, The Lemonheads, and The New Pornographers.