I've been exposed to music all my life. The town that I grew up in was called LaFollette,...
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Howard Armstrong:
I've been exposed to music all my life. The town that I grew up in was called LaFollette, Tennessee. There were 11 of us in the family. All those older than me could play some instrument. So, I started off playin' music by listenin' to my dad and he gave me some instructions on the mandolin and whatnot. Because, after he got into the preachin' business, they decided, he and his church members that that was the devil's instrument. It wasn't becoming for a minister to play string music, so, he threw his old mandolin in my lap.
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I been exposed to music all my life
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The town that I grew up in is called LaFollette Tennessee
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There were 11 of us in the family
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All those older than me could play some instrument
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So I started off playing music by listening to my dad
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He gave me some instructions on the mandolin and whatnot
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Because after he got into the preaching business
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They decided he and his church members that that was the devil's instrument
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And it wasn't becoming for a minister to play string music
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So he threw his old mandolin in my lap
Clip duration: 37 seconds
Views: 97
Timestamp in movie: 00h 12m 32s
Uploaded: 05 April, 2022
Genres: documentary, music
Summary: About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.
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00:33 This man This man here
00:08 Women fell for the dude head over heels
00:35 There were different ethnic groups here in this part of...
00:07 Cried screamed like a wildcat
00:22 And you know during that time there was a whole lot of black...
00:37 The woodpecker flew to the schoolhouse yard
00:12 But the sad part you see my poor ol' mother was...
00:13 A lot of people didn't care too much aboutJesus...
00:36 I'd hate to wake up anywhere and see that
00:25 I'm not ashamed to tell anybody my age
00:09 Preacher's a regular legalized pimp
00:13 I'm doing with my life every morning that I get up
00:31 Well anyway that's what we call steatopygic
00:12 Now there's the man Death He's the biggest pimp of...
00:13 You see a lot of people think that pornography
00:36 And my brother Roland played a homemade bass my dad made out...
00:34 Well the first string bands that I uh came in contact with
00:20 We couldn't play the blues you know for the white...
00:16 Didn't matter what the instrumentation was
00:08 He was so greedy after women