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Down Home Georgia Music: Clinton Carter and his Old-Time Fiddle Band

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Episode of Georgia Public Television's production of "Down Home Georgia Music," produced in cooperation with the Georgia Folklore Society, featuring Clinton Carter and His Old Time Fiddle Band and Theodus Taylor. Narrated by George Mitchell, music coordinator for Georgia Folklore Society. The band plays several songs, with Clinton Carter on guitar and Jack Weeks on fiddle, and are inteviewed briefly about the band's history. The band members discuss playing at cakewalks in their early days, and the highlights of their career. Carter talks about playing at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. the year before. They also discuss their new album of old-time fiddle music. Songs: Cincinnati Rag, Listen to the Mockingbird, Say Old Man, Sugarfoot Rag, Rose of Sharon, Mandolin Boogie. Next, blues musician and pianist Theodus Taylor is introduced by George Mitchell, and performs several songs. In an interview segment with Mitchell, he discusses his history with music, and learning to sing at church. He learned the guitar later as a teenager, and played first within a group and then solo. He discusses the benefits of performing solo, and traveling to perform. He discusses composing music, and and teaching his children to play.
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Video
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Georgia Folklore SocietyGeorgia Public Television
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia