I Never Intended To Make A Living

The Danger With The Internet Is That You Don't Need To Think About Music, You Just Search For It And You Find The Answer. Singing Used To Be Part Of Everyday Life. Women Sang While Pounding Corn. Men Sang While Paddling Canoes.

I Never Intended To Make A Living From Music. That's The Funny Thing. I Wanted To Be A Journalist.

He [alan Lomax] Started Right Off Trying To Find People Who Could Introduce Folk Songs To City People. He Found A Young Actor Named Burl Ives And Said, "burl, You Know A Lot Of Great Country Songs Learned From Your Grandmother, Don't You Know People Would Love To Hear Them?" He Put On Radio Programs. He Persuaded Cbs To Dedicate "the School Of The Air" For One Year To American Folk Music. He'd Get Some Old Sailor To Sing An Old Sea Shanty With A Cracked Voice. Then He'd Get Me To Sing It With My Banjo.

I Was Working For Alan Lomax In The Library Of Congress Folk Song Archive, And Starting To Realize What A Wealth Of Different Kinds Of Music There Was In This Country That You Never Heard On The Radio.

I Am Saying Voluntarily That I Have Sung For Almost Every Religious Group In The Country, From Jewish And Catholic, And Presbyterian And Holy Rollers And Revival Churches.