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| :: Title :: |
The Banks Of The Arkansas |
| :: Genre :: |
dance tune |
| :: Performers & Instruments :: |
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| :: Setting :: |
Probably the home of Neal Morris |
| :: Location :: |
Timbo (Stone County), Arkansas (United States) |
| :: Language :: |
English |
| :: Culture :: |
Southern U.S., Anglo-American, Ozarks, Arkansas |
| :: Session :: |
Timbo 10/59
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| :: Date :: |
10/6/1959 |
| :: Reference Information :: |
T914.0, Track 13 (00:00:29) |
| :: Original Format :: |
Reel to Reel
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| :: Session Notes :: |
| 1 - Ballads, songs, religious material, banjo tunes, and square dance calls performed by Neal Morris, Uncle Charlie Everidge, Ollie and Oscar Gilbert, and Carlos "Bookmiller" Shannon. [Source: Editor] |
| 2 - Alan Lomax: [Quoting:] "Sal's got a bacon rind laid away / To grease Jim's middle leg so they say." ? Oscar Gilbert knows "The Fog and the Dew." ? Music grows just like a grapevine. [transcribed from interview] ? Remember how Oscar Gilbert sat and listened, mouthing the words as he listened to the playback. Remember story how Oscar was shot in mistake for Jesse James - how Frank James offered to bring him to the [sic?] St. Louis if he was offered complete immunity. ? He [Neal Morris] shakes his head like J. D. [Jimmy Driftwood] - smiles, raises his eyebrows - looks at you when he sings - closes his eyes on high notes, watches his left hand on guitar, [indecipherable] acc. [?] at the ends of line. ? Oscar thinks and maintains Neal can sing better than Jimmy D. ? Neal tells about his family - has been musicians for 500 years. People came from KY. His grandfather had a singing school - went to Carnegie Hall big singing school teaching convention - only man in the hall who knew why the sharp notes are added to school [?]. Only day Neal ever went to school in his life, he asked the teacher why the sharps and the teacher got mad. He thought Neal knew from his father [sic]. Neal got mad and left." [Source: Tapebox] |
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| :: Collection :: |
Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 |
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