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Logger's Sheet 
Logger: Lori Taylor
Reel Number: 8      Stage: AFS
Date: 6/23/1988       Presentor: John Vlach
Group Name: Afro-American folklore
Region/Style:

Performer(s)                Instrument/Occupation
Worth Long (folklorist - Atlanta, GA)
Lonnie Pitchford (blues guitarist - Lexington, ms)
John Vlach (folklorist - Washington, DC)
Chuck Howell - bar B-que cook, Memphis, TN
Contents
1.Intro - retention of African traits in black community(yes)
newest pursuit -> search for Afro-American artifacts.
2. music has been and will be health with -
emphasis on material culture
3. Learning guitar on a one strong
4. using whatever is around the house?
screen wire, broom wire, brick, stick.
5. LP - 1st time on festival stage 1974. how he felt.
6. growth of his awareness of (diddly-bow) one string as part of African heritage
7. made his instrument yesterday (6 hrs). hollow, carved
8. if he were in a hurry, he'd use a board & a nail.
9. Playing -
examples of early sound, greater speed - slide.
10. Tine ("Roll and Tumble") "I wish I was in Heaven Gettin' Down"
finger picking, and with vocals
11. Song "My Baby Can't Stand No Chains [strikethrough] Cheatin'"
he's made hollow & solid, steel & stick, up against wall & electric
12. Song - fast picking
13.
Chuck of Cuck's Bar-B-Que, Chuck Howell - Memphis, TN 
African origins in Bar-B-Que
Tennessee - "Pork capital of the world"
large family - 27 sisters & brother, Dad did the cooking.
Secret in the sauce - lest ingredient: mustard, still experiments
meat - fresh only, not boiled. Shows ribs - cook 4hrs, slide off bones
pork but - cook 10 mins at 280 [degrees]
T-shirt - "We Que for you"