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Recorded in the late 1930s, this traditional country tune is also known as "A Dollar Down and A Dollar a Week" and provides apt social commentary on buying with credit.Music
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The Installment Song | Claude Casey | Digital Traditions
Down with Gin | Claude Casey | Digital Traditions
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A Claude Casey original that paints a vivid image of a rowdy young man, much in the style of later country musicians like Hank Williams,Jr. Also recorded in the late 1930s.
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down | Roger Bellow | Digital Traditions
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From the album "Success Street" by Roger Bellow and the Drifting Troubadours, 1988. Bellow - guitar, Bob Sachs - mandolin, Don Earl - Dobro, and Dick Daniels - bass.
Sally Goodin' | T.C. Foster | Digital Traditions
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Song featured on the "Fiddle Traditions" recording produced by Hairy Toe Productions. Clarence Green on guitar.
John Fowler Photos | Digital Traditions
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John Thomas Fowler is a gifted multi-instrumentalist and storyteller. For more than 30 years, Fowler has worked to ensure Appalachian culture remains alive by sharing the musical traditions and...
Ted Brackett Photos | Digital Traditions
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Ted Brackett was from Inman, South Carolina. His father, a farmer by trade, played an old time claw hammer banjo and Ted’s uncle played the fiddle. Growing up in a musical family, he soon showed...
T.C. Foster Photos | Digital Traditions
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T.C. Foster learned the ways of the fiddle at a very young age, often listening to his father play on the front porch for hours at a time. Sneaking around with his father’s fiddle at first, by the age...