File - trainorcecil06-oh-musichome_M.mp3
Speakers:
CT – Cecil Trainor
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: The community was called Peake's Station?
CT: Yes.
KP: Did you grow up in a family where people played music.
CT: My father played the violin some. He played it some. Just right close to where I was born there was a family called Connollys. They were very musical B Louie played the fiddle, Cecil played the fiddle, Jimmy played the fiddle, and a lot of them played guitars too, and they all sang, This is where I got my B from being there. We used to get a fellow on Sunday nights, his name was Jack Smith. And some nights when a crowd would gather at the house somewhere we'd decide we'd have a dance, and some nights poor Jack would be in bed but we'd get him up anyway and he'd come with his fiddle. Them times there was no guitars very much. But anyway, we danced into the wee hours of the morning: waltz and square dance. And this could happen every Sunday night. You didn't do it on Saturday night cause you were too tired from workin' all week, and you didn't do it too late on Sunday because you'd have to get up and go to school the next mornin or go to work, either one or the other. Them times there was no such thing as doin' nothin.
