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Date recorded: August 25, 1942
Contributor(s): Performer: Wilson, Effie; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jackson, George Pullen
Subject(s):
Genre: instrumental
Instruments: dingle bow
Location: Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States
Tape number: AFS6722
Track Number: 4
Archive ID: 6722A4
Note: It's unclear whether the "dingle bow" is held in the mouth like an Ozark mouth bow or "picking bow," or whether it's held in the lap. Lomax declines to have it described on the disc and instead says "we'll take a picture of it," but no picture seems to have survived.
Transcript:
Belongs to: Marrowbone 9/42
About the session: After recording the annual Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Birmingham, Alan Lomax and George Pullen Jackson visited sisters-in-law Effie Wilson and Addina Palmore Wilson in Marrowbone, Kentucky, where they recorded them singing play-party songs and ballads with dulcimer and "dingle bow" accompaniment.
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