In March 1966, the concert promotional agency Lippmann + Rau brought several American folk and country singers to Europe, uniting them in a group concert that toured Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, England, and West Germany. Rather than highlighting more mainstream country bands from musical hubs like Nashville, Lippmann + Rau selected performers whose interpretations of the genre originated in the mountains of Appalachia and the Southern swamplands. Such bands would have been virtually unknown outside of their own communities, let alone in Europe. In an attempt to evoke the mythos of 19th-century America, artist Günther Kieser devised a photographic pastiche that combined actual portraits of some of the musicians and their families with vintage photographs. The individual bodies meld together to establish a larger image suggesting the historic continuum of folk and country music culture.