001.1989.011

Sun Apr 30 1989

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00:00 Allison Miner introduces “the music of Pat Flory” 01:20 Demonstration: “Going Down to the River” 03:00 Pat Flory intends to cover crossover music of country music and blues, that had a strong history in New Orleans and is now forgotten; intends to demonstrate primitive playing on mandolin 03:58 Demonstration: Jimmy Davis “Where the Old Red River Flows” 07:05 The blues is a big thing in country music; Mr. Bill Monroe was the first person to put the bluegrass music together; came also from Hank Williams; When Bluegrass was first popularized in the fifties the more primitive aspects of bluegrass (mandolin) went away; Flory made an album to display these musical characteristics; Mandolin music is interesting because of its relationship to scale and fiddle 08:35 Demonstration: Mandolin; “Soldier’s Joy” a Fiddle song on Mandolin 11:20 Demonstration: “Cherokee Shuffle” Fiddle song on a Flat-top Guitar 12:07 Demonstration: “Mississippi River Blues” 14:30 Demonstration: “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It”; one of Hank William’s first and only blue’s songs where he played lead guitar that he learned from a shoeshine man 20:11 Demonstration: old-time claw-hammer Banjo playing (pre Bluegrass, often backed up fiddle players; in Louisiana guitar backed up fiddle players) 22:15 Demonstration: Original song from 1971, fingerpicking 5 string banjo bluegrass playing, and modal tuning (neither minor nor major) 24:14 Dobro steel guitar, basic bluegrass guitar; originally meant for Hawaiian music playing; in the 1920s in California invented the resonator system of this guitar 25:50 Demonstration: Bluegrass on Dobro guitar (based loosely on a Tuck Taylor song); Bluegrass music started in 1945 when Mr. Bill Monroe hired Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs 29:15 Demonstration: “I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow” 34:01 Demonstration: “I’ll Fly Away” 37:30 Demonstration: “Mule Skinner Blues” yodeling song played by Bill Monroe in 1940 with a strong Rock beat 42:24 Interview ends

Pat Flory.

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