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1985-RR-419 cont.

LOGGER'S SHEET

LOGGER: ALDONA M. KAMANTAUSKAS
REEL NUMBER: #3          
STAGE: CULTURAL CONSERVATION NARR.
DATE: 7/4/85          
PRESENTOR: TOM VENNUM & GLENN HINSON
GROUP NAME: TRADITIONAL SINGING STYLES
REGION/STYLE: APPALACHIAN; IRISH- AMERICAN; CAJUN; GOSPEL

PERFORMER(S): INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Dewey Balfa (Basile, Louisiana) - Cajun:
Doug Wallin (Marshall, North Carolina): Appalachian Anglo-American ballads
Mick Moloney (originally from Ireland) - Irish-American:
Rev, Samuel McCrary (Nashville, Tennessee): Afro-American Gospel

CONTENTS:
1. introduction - Tom Vennum
2. THE HOUSE CARPENTER - Doug Wallin
3. sean nos version of LORD RANDAL - Mick Moloney
4. "TALK TO ME ABOUT DRINKING, BUT NEVER ABOUT MARRIAGE"- Dewey Balfa
5. story about preservation of European traditions- Tom Vennum
6. background information on Afro-American singing styles - Glenn Hinson
7. IF JESUS HAD TO PRAY, WHAT ABOUT ME?- Rev. McCrary
8. explanation of high pitch in Cajun singing - Dewey Balfa
9. survival of Irish music in America - Mick Moloney
10. explanation of lining out - Glenn Hinson, Rev. McCrary
11. impromptu sermon - Rev. McCrary
12. more of THE HOUSE CARPENTER - Doug Wallin
13. song about boy sentenced to the penitentary who has to cross a 6" plank with a wheelbarrow strapped to his waist - Dewey Balfa 14. BLACK WATERSIDE - Mick Moloney
15. HE KNOWS JUST HOW MUCH WE CAN BEAR - Rev. McCrary