# Walter Parks: The Coming Home Holler

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Walter Parks performing a song he calls “The Coming Home Holler” adapted from a field recording of Tom Chesser called “Hollering” and another field recording of Wade Chesser called “Comin’ Home Hollerin'” made at Chesser Island near Folkston, Georgia in 1944. Francis Harper collection of folk music of the Okefenokee Swamp region of Georgia, AFC 1945/012: AFS 07722 B01 and AFS 07723 A. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress challenged musical artists to interpret material from its unparalleled archive of ethnographic recordings of traditional folk music. Artists were asked to put their own spin on these archival treasures, and to perform them at a special showcase during the Folk Alliance International conference in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2020. The showcase was recorded for this webcast.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 7 min
- By: Parks, Walter
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10868/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-10868?play=1)