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Audio Recording Interview and music with fiddler J.P. "Red" Lindsey, Adel, Georgia, parts 2 and 3; Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Cook County, Georgia

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Title

  • Interview and music with fiddler J.P. "Red" Lindsey, Adel, Georgia, parts 2 and 3; Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Cook County, Georgia

Names

  • Adler, Thomas A. (Collector)
  • Lindsey, J.P., "Red"

Created / Published

  • Adel, Georgia, August 3, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Bluegrass music
  • -  Field notes
  • -  Fiddles
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Cook County -- Adel

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Side B: Part 3 of a 3-part interview with J.P. "Red" Lindsey, recorded at Lindsey's Fix-It Plus shop, Adel GA: Lindsey recalls a time Reno and Smiley came to Tifton, no crowd so they did not play, next night at Nashville GA, a small crowd, put on a show; Lindsey went to see Jim and Jesse when in the area; the Pine Valley Boys did not have a big following, they played for store openings and mobile home promotions; there is no Pine Valley but there is a Pine Valley grocery store; Lindsey says his financial circumstances kept him near Adel but he attended fiddlers conventions, as far as Tallahassee, some in Tifton, Lindsey says he is fair or good fiddler but, as a contestant, never felt that fiddlers contests were judged properly, the local man was the favorite, he got the most applause and won, Lindsey would like compete in a contest that was fairly judged; convention in Tifton which may continue, he may not get invited because of his opinions about the judging; has never encountered a black fiddler or banjo player, maybe country blues guitar player, Lindsey remembers hearing the African American harmonica player DeFord Bailey on the Grand Ole Opry, about the Opry; about music in the region, gospel singing is the most popular, rained out show the previous week was to feature the Lefevres and the Sego Brothers and Naomi; Lindsey has played electric bass for the Glory Road Singers for the past two years, before that the Crownsmen; left Glory Road to freelance on fiddle; Lindey plays by ear, has difficulty playing with musicians who use sheet music; about a tape of the Pine Valley Boys to be copied; about learning music, Lindsey "set afire" by three boys in grammar school, the Bennett boys, L.K. and Joe, brothers, mandolin and guitar, and Alvin Drawdy played fiddle, learned from oldest brother, then a neighbor, he listened to John R. Griffin and "Booth boy" who lives in Tifton; about influences, "you can't hear anybody play something that you haven't heard somebody else play, you just play what you think of"; fieldworker and Lindsey go to lunch, in the car, Lindsey says Adel used to be called "Puddleville" because of the low, swampy terrain; fieldworker pays for lunch for three ($5.91); arranging a recording session with Lindsey and Eddie Dee; end of segment with Red Lindsey; remaining segment of this recording consists of fieldworker's comments while driving in Cook County, east on road 76 to Nashville GA, crossing Bear Branch, south on county road 92 toward 37, dirt roads to 76, through scrubby woods, cattle grazing east of 93, and of Forest Hill Free Will Baptist Church, location identified on fieldworker Tom Adler's field map of Cook County as site A (lat-long: 31.131409, -83.359690), these photographs at call number AFC 1982/010: GA7-TA-23; north on county road 86, right on 79, toward S1949, then north (1977 road numbers); pass several saddlebag-form houses; S1949 intersection with 76, continue to S552; en route photographs a rundown Georgian-style house occupied by Mrs Vance, location identified on fieldworker Tom Adler's field map of Cook County as site B (lat-long: 31.225392, -83.359293); crosses into Berrien County GA, photographs swamp; dirt roads to state highway 125, then back to Tifton.
  • -  Side A: Part 2 of a 3-part interview with J.P. "Red" Lindsey, recorded at Lindsey's Fix-It Plus shop, 642 N. Hutchinson, Adel, GA: Lindsey performs "Durham's Reel"; about his band (in the past), the Pine Valley Boys, Lindsey offers to play a tape; customer comes into the shop, fieldworker steps out to photograph shop exterior, photographs of Lindsey and shop at call numbers AFC 1982/010: 3-17507, 5-17476, and GA7-TA-23; fieldworker talks to Red Lindsey's son (Mike), chit chat about school, does he fish; Lindsey explains about the recording of the Pine Valley Boys, a radio show from 1961 broadcast on WWGS in Tifton GA, sponsored by Jim Walter Homes, a 30 minute show, the copy made for this collection is at call number AFC 1982/010: AFS 20902; show begins to play in background, Lindsey reports that the band recorded twice a week, a little humor but the band did not have a designated comedian; discussion of one or two tunes; Lindsey says that Ralph Carter lives just out of Adel on the Moultrie highway, Lindsey knows no young people who play bluegrass; Virgil Newburn from Tifton plays mandolin, Kenny Mock from Alapaha plays bass, Buddy Goff plays guitar; how the band was formed; Newburn played a "taterbug" mandolin; announcer refers to Lindsey as "J.P. Lindsey," not "Red," comments on the Jim Walter Homes theme song, Lindsey understood that it had been composed by the Stanley Brothers; the Pine Valley Boys also did a Ford tractor commercial written by Jim and Jesse McReynolds, a band that was once based in Valdosta GA; the Pine Valley Boys also had the Martha White Flour jingle in their repertory although never sponsored by Martha White; today the Pine Valley Boys rarely get together; about visiting bluegrass bands, in Tifton would generally play at the school auditorium, discussion continues in part 3.

Medium

  • audiocassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20923
  • MBRS shelflist: RYA 0881
  • Field project identifier: GA7-TA-C21

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Adler, Thomas A, and J.P Lindsey. Interview and music with fiddler J.P. "Red" Lindsey, Adel, Georgia, parts 2 and 3; Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Cook County, Georgia. Adel, Georgia, August 3, 1977. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20923/.

APA citation style:

Adler, T. A. & Lindsey, J. P. (1977) Interview and music with fiddler J.P. "Red" Lindsey, Adel, Georgia, parts 2 and 3; Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Cook County, Georgia. Adel, Georgia, August 3. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20923/.

MLA citation style:

Adler, Thomas A, and J.P Lindsey. Interview and music with fiddler J.P. "Red" Lindsey, Adel, Georgia, parts 2 and 3; Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Cook County, Georgia. Adel, Georgia, August 3, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20923/>.