Man talks about his love of folk music and concerts. Convinces Congress to build music facility. Tells how his parents took him to Oklahoma on a wagon. He sings a sample of folk music. Woman says they “didn’t know it was called folk music then.”

Arkansas, mountain, concerts, music, Oklahoma, folk music

 

Jimmy Driftwood has written over 6,000 folk songs, including the Battle Hymn of New Orleans. He was recorded in the Ozarks, at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas, which he founded. He started writing songs to teach history at age 16 in a little schoolhouse. His parents took him in a covered wagon to Oklahoma.  He is well traveled, but his accent is strong and has remnants of early colonial sounds. This sample can be used to coach or re-create historical American Southern characters.

American Southern: Mountain Southern: Southern Dialects: Southern Accents: Ozarks: Arkansas, Mountain View.�

Mountain AS WF age 35: American Southern, Southern Accents, Southern Dialects, Mountain Southern, Arkansas, Mountain View, White Female, age 35, Mountain View, AS, WF, age 35, born in 1960, mother, turkey hunter, deer hunter. Ginger is a white female musician, deer and turkey hunter, and mother from Mountain View, Arkansas, recorded at age 35 in 1994 at the Ozark Folk Center. Her southern accent is a light rhotic ("r" pronouncing), working class, mountain southern dialect.