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This interview features fiddle player Bartow Riley. Riley discusses playing in fiddle contests, recording, and going to Nashville. Riley also talks extensively about his friends and acquaintances he has met in music.
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'''Location:''' Childress, Texas
 
'''Location:''' Childress, Texas
  
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'''Interviewer:''' Curtis Peoples and Andy Wilkinson
  
 
'''Length:''' 01:35:11
 
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Father’s background; Beginning fiddle; Recording and Nashville; Fiddle contests; Acquaintances and friends; Hale Center contest; Style of fiddling in the Panhandle; Distinction between breakdown and western swing; Long bow versus short bow; Johnny Gimble; Preserving tapes; Music stores in Lubbock; Bowing; Billy Grammer; Preserving stories and tapes
  
  
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==Access Information==
 
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'''Original Recording Format:''' born digital audio
  
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'''Recording Format Notes:''' access copy available in reading room
  
'''Transcript:''' Transcript available in reading room
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'''Transcript:''' Transcript available https://hdl.handle.net/10605/376432
  
  
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Latest revision as of 16:26, 17 December 2025

This interview features fiddle player Bartow Riley. Riley discusses playing in fiddle contests, recording, and going to Nashville. Riley also talks extensively about his friends and acquaintances he has met in music.


General Interview Information

Interviewee Name: Bartow Riley

Additional Parties Recorded:

Date: June 21, 2010

Location: Childress, Texas

Interviewer: Curtis Peoples and Andy Wilkinson

Length: 01:35:11


Abstract

Father’s background; Beginning fiddle; Recording and Nashville; Fiddle contests; Acquaintances and friends; Hale Center contest; Style of fiddling in the Panhandle; Distinction between breakdown and western swing; Long bow versus short bow; Johnny Gimble; Preserving tapes; Music stores in Lubbock; Bowing; Billy Grammer; Preserving stories and tapes


Access Information

Original Recording Format: born digital audio

Recording Format Notes: access copy available in reading room

Transcript: Transcript available https://hdl.handle.net/10605/376432



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