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oral history

House parties around Central Lot 16

Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract:
  • Abstract:General description of local house parties
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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    Virtues of restraint

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Prohibition, teddies of rum; why he himself didn't drink much and how he avoided overdoing it
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history

    Dance playing income

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:He could make more fiddling than working on a farm; no pay in the towns
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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    Farrell gets started

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Felt a calling to the fiddle even before he ever saw any one play; carved own bow and got bow hair from the horse's tale; his first tune was "Wreck of the Old No. 9'
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history

    Wood chopping frolics

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Wood chopping frolics with a dance afterwards
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories

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