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Title: Clyde Langford 10/10/93, Clyde Langford 10/10/93
Identifier: e_top_0061
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Langford, Clyde
Topic: Blues (Music), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: 1993-10-10
Box: 2007-247/41
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: The first four and a half minutes of this recording concludes Frank Robinson's interview with Tary Owens on October 10th, 1993. Frank plays ""Mojo Hand"" and tells Tary how to meet up with several other musicians in town. At 04:54 Clyde Langford begins speaking with Tary Owens. Mr. Langford was born in 1934 and began playing guitar at the age of 13, learning from the brother of the famous, Lightning Hopkins. After being discharged from the Air Force, he switched his guitar style to one that more closely resembles Sam Lightning Hopkins. Langford went on to win several contests but never played professionally. He tells several stories about his first and second wives. Tary and Clyde discuss many other players from around Crockett as well as some local gossip.

Title: Clyde Langford 10/10/93 [Continued], Clyde Langford 10/10/93 [Continued]
Identifier: e_top_0062
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Langford, Clyde
Topic: Blues (Music), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: 1993-10-10
Box: 2007-247/21
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Clyde Langford plays a song about a girl called ""Boney Maroni"" for Tary Owens on October 10th, 1993. The recording ends about two and a half minutes in and the remaining 29 minutes completely verified as blank by the digitization technician.

Title: Ervin Charles Tary's Porch [Side B], Ervin Charles Tary's Porch [Side B]
Identifier: e_top_0007
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Thibodeau, Charles (interviewer), Charles, Joseph Ervin (interviewee)
Topic: Methods (Blues), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: undated
Box: 2007/247-14
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: A conversation mostly between Ervin Charles and Charles Thibodeau with Charles Prichard, Tary Owens and a few other unidentified individuals playing and joining in on occasion. A party atmosphere as they hang out on Tary Owens' porch. Includes performances of songs like, ""She Didn't Know I Was Married Waltz,"" ""Sugar Bee,"" ""La Porte d'en Arrière,"" "" Born in Louisiana,"" ""The Love Bridge Waltz,"" ""The Hathaway 2-Step"" and ""Matilda.""

Title: Frank Robinson 10/10/93, Frank Robinson 10/10/93
Identifier: e_top_0060
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Robinson, Frank
Topic: Blues (Music), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: 1993-10-10
Box: 2007-247/41
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: This recording begins mid-conversation with blues guitarist Frank Robinson speaking with Tary Owens on October 10th, 1993 in Crockett, Texas. The men are discussing other players that Frank helped learn to play guitar. Frank plays several songs throughout the conversation while the two men discuss fiddle players, playing with a knife, and Muddy Waters. Mr. Robinson tells Tary how to locate a local pastor that plays with a knife before talking about (Nathaniel) Bill Barnes, Jimmy Hamilton, and Lightning Hopkins.

Title: Frank Robinson Crockett, Tx 10/9/93, Frank Robinson Crockett, Tx 10/9/93
Identifier: e_top_0059
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Robinson, Frank
Topic: Blues (Music), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: 1993-10-09
Box: 2007/247-59
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Blues guitarist Frank Robinson speaks with Tary Owens on October 10th, 1993 in Crockett, Texas. Frank discusses his early interest in music, his father's musicianship and other players he played with both at dances and at home. Mr. Robinson plays several songs during this interview including ""Baby, Please Don't Go,"" and ""West Texas Blues.""

Title: Grey Ghost Interview Tape 5 [Side B], Grey Ghost Interview Tape 5 [Side B]
Identifier: e_top_0023
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Williams, Roosevelt T., (interviewee)
Topic: Blues musicians, Piano music (Blues), Concert tours
Dates: 1990-07-25
Box: 2007/247-30
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Roosevelt T. Williams discusses various aspect of traveling with a medicine man / tonic salesman and also with carnivals. Ghost discusses his songwriting process and his song ""Hitler Blues."" Owens inquires about William Owens the first man to record Grey Ghost and the types of songs that Roosevelt enjoys the most.

Title: Guitar Curtis Colter, Crockett Tx 10/09/93, Guitar Curtis Colter, Crockett Tx 10/09/93
Identifier: e_top_0058
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Colter, Curtis
Topic: Blues (Music), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: 1993-10-09
Box: 2007/247-59
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Guitar Curtis Colter speaks with Tary Owens on October 10th, 1993 in Crockett, Texas. The two men discuss Colter's early experiences learning the guitar and his early influences. Colter strums and plays songs throughout the recording. Colter tells several stories about meeting and playing with the likes of T.D. Bell, Long John Hunter, Little Joe Washington, and Sunny Guitar Charles.

Title: Hosea Hargrove Interview [Side A], Hosea Hargrove Interview [Side A]
Identifier: e_top_0018
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Hargrow, Lee Henry (interviewee)
Topic: Methods (Blues), Blues (Music), Blues musicians
Dates: 1987-03-23
Box: 2007/247-25
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: An interview conducted by Tary Owens with blues guitarist Hosea Hargrove carried out on 03/23/1987. They talk about Hosea's start playing music, old blues songs he heard growing up, various players from that time. The two men talk about Hosea's particular style and how it compares to Jimmy Reed, as well as his current gigs around town.

Title: Hosea Hargrove Interview [Side B], Hosea Hargrove Interview [Side B]
Identifier: e_top_0019
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Hargrow, Lee Henry (interviewee)
Topic: Blues musicians, Music-halls, Blues (Music)
Dates: 1987-03-24
Box: 2007/247-26
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: An interview conducted by Tary Owens with Blues Guitarist Hosea Hargrove carried out on 03/23/1987. Hosea plays ""Mojo Workin,"" talks about his style of playing, and how he taught himself from books but lacks formal training. They discuss many different players he knows from around different towns and people he has played with over the years. Hosea talks about recording with Stevie Ray Vaughan, his first real studio recording, and he also speaks briefly about shooting a video with Vaughan.

Title: Interview Billbo Barnes [Side B], Interview Billbo Barnes [Side B]
Identifier: e_top_0009
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Barnes, Nathaniel (interviewee)
Topic: Methods (Blues), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: 1988-07-03
Box: 2007/247-16
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Nathaniel ""Billbo"" Barnes, aka Guitar Papa, talks about recording and playing on the radio back in 1945. Barnes discusses current gigs around town and closes out by playing ""Mean Old Frisco."" The recording is mono, everything is audible but the volume is low, and the questions are harder to hear than the interviewee's answers.

Title: Interview Nathaniel "Bibb" Barnes of Houston Tx [Side A], Interview Nathaniel ""Bibb"" Barnes of Houston Tx [Side A]
Identifier: e_top_0008
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Barnes, Nathaniel (interviewee)
Topic: Methods (Blues), Blues musicians, Guitar music (Blues)
Dates: 1988-07-03
Box: 2007/247-15
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Nathaniel ""Bibb,"" ""Billbo"" Barnes, aka Guitar Papa, discusses much of his music related life and personal history in this interview. Where he was born and where he lived over the years as well as various individuals he played with along the way are just a few of the topics discussed. At 40:32 there is a loud burst of music that lasts three seconds, its origin is unknown. The recording is mono, everything is audible but the volume is low, and the questions are harder to hear than the interviewee's answers.

Title: Johnny Holmes 9/86, Johnny Holmes 9/86
Identifier: e_top_0065
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Holmes, Johnny
Topic: Blues (Music), Blues musicians, Cooking
Dates: 1986-09-01
Box: 2007-247/41
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Johnny Holmes speaks with Tary Owens owner of the Victory Grill, in Austin Tx. Mr. Holmes discusses the early beginnings of the Victory Grill and how he got started booking dances and bands back in 1933. Johnny talks about the time he spent away from Austin and the Victory as well as what brought him back. Holmes discusses some of the artists he worked with over the years and the good old days when the Victory would stay open all night as an after hours hangout. He also talks about his extensive skills as a line cook.

Title: Mance Lipscomb Jr., Navasota, Texas [Side A], Mance Lipscomb Jr., Navasota, Texas [Side A]
Identifier: e_top_0030
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Lipscomb, Mance Jr. (interviewee)
Topic: Family, Country life, Blues musicians
Dates: 1987-07-01
Box: 2007/247-37
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Interview with Mance Lipscomb Jr. on his porch in Navasota, Texas on July 1, 1987. Mance Jr. talks about a wide range of topics such as growing up with his father (Mance Lipscomb), his playing style, his uncle Ralph (Mance Lipscomb Sr.'s Brother). He tells a story about his father showing up unannounced at a country dance and the hired musician was asked to leave so that Mance Lipscomb Sr. would play. Mance Jr. also discusses the similarities between his son Frank's style of playing and his father, Mance Lipscomb Sr.

Title: Mance Lipscomb Jr., Navasota, Texas [Side B], Mance Lipscomb Jr., Navasota, Texas [Side B]
Identifier: e_top_0031
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Lipscomb, Mance Jr. (interviewee)
Topic: Guitar music (Blues), Blues musicians, Blues (Music)
Dates: 1987-07-02
Box: 2007/247-38
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: Continued oral history interview with Mance Lipscomb Jr. by Tary Owens. Mance Jr. strums on the guitar and tries to play several songs while the two men speak about his father Mance Sr. and his son Frank and their careers. Mance Jr. tells the story of his father playing a few songs for Frank Sinatra and getting paid so much he bought a brand new car, but he remarks on the toll that travels, and increased notoriety took on him in his later years.

Title: T.D. Bell Interview, T.D. Bell Interview
Identifier: e_top_0064
Creator: Owens, Tary, (interviewer)
Contributor: Bell, T.D.
Topic: Blues (Music), Blues musicians, Electric guitar music (Blues)
Dates: circa 1986
Box: 2007-247/41
Resource: Tary Owens papers
Description: T.D. Bell interviewed by Tary Owens in September of 1986. Roosevelt T. Williams also appears throughout the recording. T.D. introduces himself and begins talking about how he got started playing the guitar. Bell begins discussing how he got started playing at the Victory Grill in Austin, Texas and his subsequent 25-year career as a musician. He talks about many of the other players that played in his band over the years and musicians that he played as a backing musician. He recounts his connection to an infamous story about Johnny Ace and Willie Mae Thornton before talking about Pee Wee Creighton, Crazy Legs Moore, Blues Wallace, Gatemouth Brown and Albert Collins. At one point Bell mentions that he has some old reel to reel recordings of Freddie King and other memorabilia in storage. T.D. and Grey Ghost discuss several old musicians they know around town.

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