American Patchwork: Cajun Country - Don't Drop The Potato is one of the programs in Alan Lomax's American Patchwork documentary series celebrating the roots of American music. Director and host Lomax shows that Cajun music gumbos together French, German, West Indian, Native American, and hillbilly influences in a mélange made for dancing. The musicians and singers featured include Denis McGhee, Canray Fontenot, Bois-Sec Ardoin, the Hackberry Ramblers, Dewey Balfa, and Wade Fruge. Highlights include a horseback Mardis Gras, an investigation in western France of Cajun roots, and scenes from Cajun cattle drives, horse races, and barroom dances. Lomax also examines a modern Cajun revival, which features young Cajuns learning to speak the distinctive Cajun French of their grandparents and taking up the ballads and fiddle tunes of their ancestors. Alan Lomax has been recording American music since the 1930s, when he first recorded Jelly Roll Morton, Blind Willie McTell, $Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, and Woody Guthrie.