Urban Pioneers interview with Tom Carter, July 25, 2007

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Tom Carter, July 25, 2007
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Tom Carter
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9701
Creator Carter, Tom, 1947- ; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-07-25
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage July 25, 2007
Description Recording of Part 2 of an interview by Polly Stewart with Tom Carter, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Jennifer Bott [now Bateman] was the sound engineer; transcript by Laura R. Marcus [now Green]. One of the interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott Bateman conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project, 2004-2011
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject Carter, Tom, 1947- --Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Tom Carter; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Getting started on banjo; 2. Taking guitar lessons with Bruce Phillips and then Dave Roylance; 3. Gravitating towards old-time music-as opposed to bluegrass/learning the fiddle/playing in various bands/meeting Hal Cannon; 4. Talking about different bands and players in the 1960s; 5. Connecting with the counter culture aspect of folk music/"politics of the dispossessed"; 6. Talking about musical technique; 7. Talking about the sensibility of the folk music lifestyle; 8. Talking about the group photograph patterned after one of the New Lost City Ramblers; 9. Comparing old-time and bluegrass music and their related sensibilities; 10. Talking about Rhode Island days/playing in bands there/friendships with Hal Cannon, Leonard Coulson, and Skip Gorman; 11. Comparing old-time with bluegrass music; 12. Talking about a band with Chris Montague and Dick (Byron) Bronk
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 42 minutes, 19 seconds
Language eng
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Is Part of The 30 interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project
ARK ark:/87278/s62j6wq3
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716359
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62j6wq3
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