- Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection
- Title:
- Interview with Doc Barnes Part 3, Athens, Georgia, 1980 July 23
- Creator:
- Rosenbaum, Art
- Date of Original:
- 1980-07-23
- Subject:
- African American guitarists--Georgia--Athens
Gospel music--Georgia--Athens
Old-time music--Georgia--Athens
Composition (Music)
Church music--Georgia--Athens
Textile industry--Georgia--Athens
Field recordings - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Part three of a four-part recording. Art Rosenbaum interviews Doc Barnes about music. He says that he prefers church songs but he also likes secular songs. He repeats the lyrics to a secular song that begins "Down in the Wildwood." When he was a child his Aunt Jane sang a song called "Foolish Love" asked him to accompany him on guitar. Barnes is critical about churchgoers' opposition to secular songs and to owning a television. He describes singing church songs when he was a child, writing songs for his gospel group, and personalizing songs that were written by someone else. He prefers playing old-time music to contemporary music because it communicates more to the audience, and people are familiar with it. Barnes worked at Thomas Textile for 24 years, and the owner sometimes asked him to play guitar.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_gfc_gfc-2274-01
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugabma/gfc/do:gfc-2274-01
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 00:23:37
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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