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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
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
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Movie 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.
