Cruisin' the bins

Neil Morris sez:

Well, when I was just a small boy, old Uncle Milt Oldfield, the Congressman from Arkansas for so long -- it was his father. He and my father were close friends, and they were discussing music. They were music teachers both of them. And they said, Dad did, and Uncle Milt sanctioned what he said, that music had no end, that you could learn all the other guy learned, and after you get that done then something else would crop up. And that's the reason why music advanced. Why, you would get better music in one generation, maybe that is, that would fit the times in which they lived. They said that music grew like the grapevine that is never pruned, that each year it put on a little bit more. That is what they said about it.

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(From an interview with Neil Morris, conducted by Alan Lomax, October 6, 1959 in Timbo Arkansas)

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