Patterson, Dow 2011-03-05
Dow Patterson’s 70th birthday. Playing small sets of music
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Dow Patterson
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Date: March 05, 2011
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Interviewer: Andy Wilkinson
Length: 02:58:41
Abstract
Background, Wrote a song about how he feels at age 70, 5 years free of cancer, Green Corn, Only Claw hammer song he knows how to play, Claw hammer two fingers, Banjo, Same sequence of music, Dave plays a song, Rotate playing different songs, Lyle Lovett song, Old Rivers of Texas, Don’t know who wrote it, Old folk song, Vera Lynn 94 years old, Can google her, Black and white video, In a Park, 1,000 air force people that she is singing to, In a white suit, 80% of all the RAF pilots were killed, One of the famous songs of WWII, Song made her career, Smokey Den of inequity song, Left hand players turn their guitars upside down, Song by Michael Martin Murphy, Song by McCrimmon, Met Dan when he was playing in Austin with Vincent Kelley DeFrancis in a band called The Triad, The Frommocks Album, Missing verse, When you leave out the missing verse the message of the song isn’t as clear, Baxter Black Cowboy Poems, Paul Wilson, Mostly a drinker, Good friend, Great fan and follower, The road is still the road, Russian proverb inspired the song, 1962 junior year at tech recorded by Sam Whitman, Michael Herne, Bill Herne’s nephew, Good song writer, New album out, MGA, First time meeting Tony, Had the same guitar as the one is playing on in the recording, Only knew about three cords, Didn’t play much guitar, Tony came up and said “Let me see that”, Showed him how the guitar worked, Wound up being really good friends, Played in a Bluegrass band together, When they graduated from school they were roommates for three months, Showed him how to do three finger Travis picking, Rex Allen Jr., Stories, Andy and a friend of Patterson were out walking the dog one night, Told Andy about when he was in Alaska, Doctor by the lake, Murder Lake, Guy was a hermit, The doctor wanted to meet the hermit, Sign said 1966 still plenty of room in Alaska, Never met him, Friend of Patterson wrote a song based on the things on the hermits property, Plays song, Murder Lake, Dearing’s made two banjos in 1986, Resonators, Austin, Bowie, Crocket, Greg Dearing made a terrible mistake by misspelling Houston, A rich lady bought one of the banjos, She used to be one of his banjo students, She died of cancer, Oklahoma River, Steve Goodman song, 1 banjo donated, 151 years and 11 mates, Had a ceremony at the Alamo in September of 1987, San Antonio doing music at Bradley Middle School, Along with him was a beautiful banjo player named Amanda Shires, Also played the fiddle, Had played together for awhile, She played in a band called Thrift Store Cowboys, Shoe string tour, Shared a room with all the musicians, A lot of band members slept on the floor in the hotel room, there were only two beds, “Wishing away the distance between them”, Plays song inspired by that line, “Beggars would ride”, Song written by Art Podell in the 1960s, Wonderful chords, Good energy, Half of Art and Paul Pash, Made an album together, Coolest thing on there was “all the pretty little horses”
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