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Folklife Database: Cowboy musician Jim Bob Tinsley
Item Type:
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Sound
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| Series Number/Title |
S1576 |
| Container |
12 |
| Item |
Audio recording |
| Item ID Number |
C84-10 - C84-11 |
| Item Title |
Cowboy musician Jim Bob Tinsley |
| Program/Event |
Library Folklife Program
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| Date/Date Range |
03/09/1984 |
| Collector/Fieldworker |
Nusz, Nancy
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| Tradition Bearer |
Tinsley, Jim Bob, 1921-2004
Tinsley, Dottie
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| Ethnicity/Nationality |
Anglo American
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| Genre/Occupation |
Musicians
Singers
Dancers
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| Title of Work |
Streets of Laredo (C84-10)
Back in the Saddle Again
Alabama Jubilee
I Ride an old Paint
Yellow Rose of Texas
Old Chisom Trail
Billy the Kid
Roll On, Little Doggies
Let the Rest of the World Go By (C84-11)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Medley
Where Cowboy Has To Sing
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| Subject |
Cowboys
Life histories
Interviews
Oral histories
Country music
Country dancing
Clogging
Demonstrations
Music performance
Ranching
Libraries
Clog dancing
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| Place Name |
Ocala (Fla.)
Marion County (Fla.)
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| Corporate/Conference Name |
Florida Folklife Program
Silver Springs
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| General Note/Comment Field |
Two audio cassettes.
C84-10:
Interview with Jim Bob Tinsley and Dottie Tinsley as part of the Library Folklife Program; Jim Bob describes his early life and how he learned to play music and how he got into cowboy music; Woodmen of the World Band; joining the Navy playing in a band in Africa during World War II; tells stories about the songs he performs as well as about Gene Autry and Winston Churchill; Dottie describes clogging steps.
C84-11:
Continuation of interview and performance in C84-10; he continues discussing cowboy music and the songs he performs; vagabonds; WLS National Barndance; Dr. John R. Brinkley stations in Mexico and Texas; continuation of traditions in singing and writing cowboy songs; his book; Jim Reeves; his albums.
The song "Back in the Saddle Again" performed by Jim Bob Tinsley is available on the Folk Music page.
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