Born for Hard Luck (1976)

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 patentmedicine 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.