Traditional music in England
‘Banjo’ Harry Fielding interview, part 03
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Type
sound
Duration
00:07:52
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
1CDR0011403 (copy of C1033/108)
Recording date
1980-09-14
Is part of (Collection)
Bob and Jacqueline Patten Collection
Recording locations
Timsbury, Somerset, England, UK
Interviewees
Fielding, 'Banjo' Harry (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Patten, Bob (speaker, male)
Recordist
Patten, Bob
Abstract
‘Banjo’ Harry Fielding talks about busking in the West Country, the places where he went. Lynmouth, ‘Some rough people round there mind on the quiet’. The time when he was ‘done properly’ by a con man in Bude. Would send the money home every day. The time when he ended up in a fight in Truro. Rough in Cardiff. Never used lodging houses. Would sleep in the open under a tarpaulin. Time of the depression, ‘Most people were bloody starving but I were too cunning for that, what started me was hunger’
Description
Recording notes: Interview continued on C1033/109
Metadata record:
‘Banjo’ Harry Fielding interview, part 03
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