Bugg Stories vol. 8

douglas just remember anymore dressed in jeans and blue striped shirt and red suspenders his shoulders pummeling both as he stands on douglas's eyes twinkle at the attention for march ninth nineteen hundred and supply to college tennessee and douglas was a full time coal miner farmhand by the age of fourteen that it was at the age of seventeen when bob joined his dad tom split earlier with bob's mother to form a string band it was the beginning about musical career dead and homeland person is couldn't help forge and they played day says corporations all egg or will it in helmand but ballenger so dense herbs all she learned to play guitar with the guitar player so he hold almost ten million pages devoted to three core jointed and he's learned and i'm sure that so we're known issue you have to take your

son from a guitar player in this aquatic family and eventually became a pretty good rhythm player that he is a real desire was to play the fiddle they haven't let me learn to play that we'd be play amadeus and we taper as you know is thirty am twelve dollars to leave his family an agrarian to know that way aren't tutored her home nearly a dozen years after he started playing and square dances up and down the valley with his good string band not douglas took off to chattanooga one day with the fertile and when he got back his death was waiting at risk than an outdoor commerce clause and so you know it came out that a lot now that reminded us in nineteen twenty eight when will remain here sherry bobby says you know he said you don't want to have bill daley says on the buddha did you know they were so what you know

a couple months later in nineteen twenty eight he entered a fiddle contest in chattanooga and won first place at the all southern convention the neck do you need join the medicine show with a childhood friend and fellow fiddler curly fox who later became the grand ole opry veteran levels of probably destined for a spot on the opry himself tired of life on the road he complained square dances and radio shows but a factory worker in the day the nineteen forties he had his own radio show and was looking to form a band he would call it the foggy mountain boys a couple of years before when scruggs used the same name for their band and that was that his first band mates at an amateur show in chattanooga police were armed the luman brothers and there were employed or a hallway

of cultures show all my aunts and they are also known the envelope whether bo main streeter and shown the only one the wheeler family said and our listener employee involved comma i'm saying i've told <unk> the border will grow much no hollenbeck station talk to reporter charlie and ira levin went to work for bob that was the next day and he comes back two came in when charlie luken enlisted the band broke up early returns briefly after the war but he ira headed off to nashville and the grand ole opry frame bob douglas state poet working at a textile mill in playing dance hall stage radio shows parties picnics and contests in nineteen

seventy five at age seventy five he was still competing and winning so much so that he was invited to the smithsonian institute's national little contest he took with him his favorite guitarist ray george again every come up with to them paperless tara plays so there's some bar music they like say they just are <unk> mostly lost a former player lester right now sir i don't know what to do do you know any more troops douglas koreans that back when i could really play he says at one hundred years into that's a complaint says bow arm doesn't wanna work anymore and it really is the warm up to play with anything the

place became when his opera debut it's finished it's time to walk off the stage so the charisma the spellers is like to have you as a friday night up or will propel purposes of them will serve wouldn't you well you got you got one more you walk through here american demand has been falling part douglas documenting the like a disciplinarian the soon to be released video will be aptly titled bob dudley is a day for nashville public radio they

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