MF 050 Popular Music of Newfoundland Project recording dubs/ Michael Taft & Shelley Posen

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History: MF 050 Popular Music of Newfoundland Project recording dubs/ Michael Taft & Shelley Posen

Number of accessions: 1 (NA0761)
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1972
Time period covered: 20th century
Principal interviewer: Michael Taft & Sheldon Posen
Finding aides: transcript and catalog
Access restrictions: yes
Description: NA0761 Jimmy Linegar, interviewed by Michael Taft and Sheldon Posen, 1972, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Dubs of tapes on deposit at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archives. Newfoundland Popular Music Project, sponsored by a grant from the Canadian Folk Music Society. Linegar, born in 1936, talks about female C&W singers; various guitars he’s played; the Doc Williams Show, Hank Snow, and Wilf Carter coming to Newfoundland; being in the Children’s Savings program; how he got a sponsor (W. W. MacDonald); Bargain Hour Show; traveling and playing at dances; going to Montreal; drinking; Air Force; Rock ‘n’ Roll; folk music; various jobs in the U. S. and Canada. Text: 101 pp. transcript, 5 pp. catalog. Recording: T 0604 – T 0607 2 hours.