>> THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.

>> IT'S BEEN HARD TO TAKE SOME OF THE CHANGES.

IT WAS HARD TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT AT ONE TIME IN MY LIFE, THAT YOU ARE JUST NOT TOO WELL RESPECTED FOR THE CONTINUATION OF WHAT YOU BELIEVED IN BECAUSE DURING THESE OTHER TYPE OF MUSIC THAT WAS INTRODUCED AND PEOPLE JUST SEEMED TO GO FOR THEM WILD, AND THEY MADE THE CHANGES, AND THEN, BUT IT HAS BEEN SO THANKFUL TO ME TO SEE IT COME BACK, COME BACK INTO THE POINT WHERE PEOPLE ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN IT AGAIN.

IT'S A CHANGE THAT I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD COME BACK AS STRONG.

>> THE GUITAR PICKER IS ON THE BACK PORCH, BANJOS, SQUARE DANCERS WITH MARCHING OUTFITS AND TIES, PETER, PAUL AND MARY, KITCHEN JUNKETS, THE ORANGE BLOM SPECIALS, OLD TIMERS SITTING AROUND THE CRACKER BARREL SWAPPING STORIES.

JOAN AND CENTRAL PARK.

HEE-HAW, JOHNNY CASH.

OLD TIME, TRADITIONAL, BLUEGRASS, COUNTRY MUSIC.

POSSIBLY MUSIC MEANS A LOT OF THINGS TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.

HI, I'M PETE SUTHERLAND.

I WILL BE YOUR HOST FOR THIS SERIES IN WHICH WE EXPLORE WHAT FOLK CULTURE MEANS TO THE CURRENT GENERATION OF VERMONTERS WHO HAVE BECOME THE BARRIERS OF TRADITIONS AS OLD AS THE HILLS.

WHAT FEW OF YOU SEE REALIZE IS FOLK MUSIC IS THE BASIS FOR A LOT OF MUSIC YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS AND PARENTS LISTEN TO TODAY.

ROCK 'N' ROLL.

JAZZ.

AND BLUES.

SO WHAT IS FOLK MUSIC?

WELL, FOLK HUSKY IS MUSIC HANDED DOWN FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT WITHIN A FAMILY AND WITHIN A COMMUNITY.

BACK WHEN THIS CABIN WAS NEW FOLK MUSIC WAS OLD BUT STILL POPULAR.

RIGHT UP UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THIS CENTURY, IF YOU WANTED ENTERTAINMENT, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT YOU DID FOR YOURSELF.

SONGS AND GAMES AND STORIES LIKE DUCKS OF THE OYSTERS, GO TELL AUNT ROADIE, FISHER'S HORN PIPE, OLD KING GLORY ON THE MOUNTAIN, THEY HAVE BEEN REPLACED IN 1986 BY PRINCESS OF POWER, INSECT AIDS, AC/DC AND TWISTED SISTER.

BUT IT'S NOT JUST TEENAGERS WHOSE IMAGINATIONS WERE CAPTURED BY DIGITAL SOUND.

IT'S OUR GENERATION, THE BABY BOOMERS, IF YOU WILL WHO HAVE BECOME THE CHIEF CONSUMERS OF ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY.

TO US THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE USE TO BRING US THE MUSIC, STORIES, AND THE PICTURES HAS BECOME ALMOST AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT WE ARE SEEING AND HEARING.

NOW THROUGHOUT HISTORY PEOPLE HAVE USED THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO THEM AT THE TIME.

FOR EXAMPLE THE STORE BOUGHT FIDDLE MUST HAVE SEEN A VAST TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OVER THE CIGAR BOX AND THE ELECTRIC GUITAR, A LEAP FROM THE ACOUSTIC.

WITH LASERS AND DISCS WE HAVE ADDED A WHOLE DIMENSION TO HOME ENTERTAINMENT THAT WASN'T THERE.

EDUCATION.

I DON'T SUPPOSE YOU COULD FIND A VIDEO TO TEACH YOU FOLK DANCING, FOR EXAMPLE.

SURE YOU CAN.

>> TRY TO KEEP YOUR EYES AND HEAD AS STILL AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE REAL PERFORMANCE IS WHAT YOU CAN SEE.

AFTER YOU LEARN THE STEPS, TRY A >> DID YOU EVER HEAR THAT ONE?

THAT TUNE WAS ONCE PLAYED BY THE PEOPLE THAT FIRST CAME HERE IN THE VALLEY IN THE EARLY 1700s, BUT IT'S STILL A POPULAR SQUARE DANCE TUNE TODAY, "OLD MAN, OLD WOMAN" I LEARNED IT AS BUT IT MIGHT HAVE HAD A DIFFERENT TITLE WHEN IT FIRST CAME HERE.

A LOT HAS CHANGE SINCE THE SETTLERS CALLED THIS THE FRONTIER.

THIS VALLEY HERE WAS MOSTLY FORESTED IN THEIR TIME.

NOW IT'S MOSTLY PASTURE LAND.

THAT LAKE HAS SEEN A LOT OF COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC.

NOW IT'S GONE COMMERCIAL IN A WHOLE OTHER WAY.

YET THROUGH ALL OF THOSE CHANGES AND ALL OF THAT TIME, TWO THINGS HAVE MANAGED TO SURVIVE IN THE VALLEY.

THE FAMILY FARMS, AND THE MUSIC THAT THESE FAMILIES NURTURED.

JUST LIKE THE FARMS, THE MUSIC AND DANCES WERE PASSED ALONG FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, OFTEN THROUGH THE CONSTANT EXPOSURE TO IT AS A PART OF FAMILY LIFE.

TIME FOR LEISURE WAS LIMITED.

IT HAD TO BE USED EFFICIENTLY.

DANCES.

KITCHEN SONGS, HOUSE PARTIES, PROVIDED THE FAMILIES WITH SUCH A SERVICE.

YOU DID NOT NEED MANY TO HAVE A GOOD TIME BUT YOU CERTAINLY WOULD NEED A FIDDLER OR SOME OTHER MUSICIAN TO PROVIDE THE TUNES.

AND THEN THE MORE PEOPLE YOU HAD, THE BETTER TIME THAT YOU HAD.

THE FARM FAMILIES PLAYED THE MOST CRUCIAL ROLE IN CONTINUING THE WAY IN WHICH THE MUSIC WAS PASSED ALONG.

THERE IS NO EASIER WAY TO LEARN A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OR A DANCE STEP THAN HAVING THE TEACHER LIVING UNDER THE SAME ROOF WITH YOU.

THIS STYLE OF PASSING THE MUSIC FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT, A TUNE MIGHT REMAIN RELATIVELY UNCHANGED FROM THE WAY IT WAS FIRST HEARD IN THE AREA.

IN THIS SHOW WE WILL LOOK AT ONE SUCH FAMILY AND WHAT THEIR MUSIC AND THE PROCESS OF PASSING IT ON MEANS TO THEM.

THEY ARE THE COREYS FAMILY OF BENSON, VERMONT.

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I BOUGHT THIS FARM IN 1921, AND LIVED HERE UNTIL ABOUT 1964.

I WAS BORN HERE MYSELF, AND IN JANUARY 23, 1927.

FOR MYSELF, AS WELL AS MY OWN CHILDREN, THE MUSIC WAS, WAS RIGHT FROM ONE END OF THE HOUSE.

BUT THERE IS A LOT OF TIME BEEN SPENT HERE, AND THERE IS NOTHING UNUSUAL FIRST TO HAVE DANCES HERE IN THE KITCHEN RIGHT NOW.

ONE IS OVERDO AT THE PRESENT TIME.

IT WAS INTERESTING TO HEAR MY FATHER TELL ABOUT IT.

GOING TO THE HOUSE DANCES AND, AND JUST DANCING UP INTO THE MORNING, AND GETTING HOME IN TIME FOR CHORES AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, WHICH WAS QUITE COMMON.

THERE WAS SUCH GREAT ENTHUSIASM FOR THIS SORT OF THING.

IT WAS FROM ALMOST INFANCY ON.

THERE WAS ALWAYS A BEDROOM RESERVED IN THE HOUSE FOR THE CHILDREN TO SLEEP AND EVERYBODY DANCING.

I HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT, FOR SURE, AND, OF COURSE, AS I GOT INTERESTED, WELL, YOU WERE ASKED TO TAKE PART.

AND THIS IS HOW MANY PEOPLE LEARNED TO PLAY, IS JUST TO GO THROUGH THE MISTAKES, NEVER NOTICED IT.

THERE WAS A CASE OF MOVING BACK THE FURNITURE AND CLEARING THE FLOORS.

AND EVERYBODY SIMPLY MAKING THEMSELVES AT HOME.

AND IT WAS A VERY FAMILY TYPE OF THING.

ALL THE NEIGHBORS MINGLED, AND TOOK TIME TO TAKE PART.

IT WAS LIKE A BIG FAMILY GATHERING, REALLY.

>> EITHER THE SECOND ONE IS HIGHER OR THE FIRST ONE IS LOW.

THE SECOND ONE WAS HIGH.

>> THEY WERE EXPOSED TO IT, THEY HAVE NEVER SEEMED TO MIND THE PLAYING.

GOING ON IN THE HOUSE.

I WOULD COME IN FROM OUT OF THE FIELD, AND SIT DOWN, THE OTHER PLAYERS, WOULD PLAY THE PIANO FOR A HALF-HOUR WHILE THEY WERE STILL -- WHILE THEY WERE SOUND ASLEEP, AND NEVER EVEN WAKE THEM UP.

I HAVEN'T, AT ANY TIME, PUSHED MUSIC ONTO THEM.

IT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE JUST WANTED TO DO.

>> MUSIC WAS ALWAYS THERE.

WE ALWAYS HAD A CHOICE OF WHAT KIND TO LISTEN TO BECAUSE WE WERE NOT ISOLATED FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD EVEN THOUGH -- WE HAD RADIO AND TELEVISION, SO WE ALWAYS HAD PRETTY MUCH A CHOICE OF WHAT WE WANTED TO LEARN, AND WHATEVER RATE WE WANTED TO.

IT'S NOT LIKE YOU ARE GOING TO SIT DOWN AND PRACTICE FOR THREE OR TWO HOURS TODAY AND YOU ARE GOING TO PLAY THIS MANY SONGS.

IT WAS, IF YOU WANT TO LEARN A SONG YOU KNOW, IT WAS ALWAYS THERE.

WHEN I GOT TO WHERE I WAS INTERESTED, DECIDED THIS WAS THE MUSIC THAT I LIKED, HAVING IT IN THE HOUSE SO I COULD SIT DOWN AND PLAY WHAT I KNEW OF IT.

AND IF I COULDN'T PLAY ONLY PART OF IT, IT WAS NOT A BIG PROBLEM.

IF YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT, YOU CAN PLAY IT, THAT'S THE BASIC STRATEGY.

IF YOU CAN'T WHISTLE IT, YOU DON'T KNOW THE SONG, IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE SONG YOU CAN'T PLAY IT, SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE SONG, WHISTLE PART OF IT UNTIL YOU GET THE WAY THE NOTES ARE PUT TOGETHER IN YOUR MIND, THE WAY YOU THINK YOU HEARD IT.

SIT DOWN AND PLAY IT, AND I CAN REMEMBER HUNDREDS OF TIMES COMING OUT AND SAYING, WHAT'S THE REST OF THIS TUNE.

WHAT'S THE SECOND HALF OF THIS SONG.

AND HE PLAYED -- WELL, HE PROGRESSED PAST ME WITH FLYING COLORS.

>> I STARTED PLAYING THE VIOLIN WHEN I WAS ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD.

AND MUSIC WAS ALWAYS IN THE HOUSE.

IN ONE FOR THE PURPOSE OR ANOTHER, WHETHER IT WAS THE RADIO OR FATHER PLAYING OR WHETHER THERE WAS SOME DANCE OR PARTY GOING ON.

I GREW UP WITH THE MUSIC, SO I BECAME ACCUSTOMED TO IT.

ENJOYED IT.

MORE SO THAN A LOT OF THE MUSIC THAT WAS BEING WRITTEN AND BEING PLAYED WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.

BY A LOT OF THE POP ARTISTS OR >> THERE WAS REALLY NO OTHER KIDS IN SCHOOL THAT PLAYED TRADITIONAL OLD-TIME MUSIC.

MOST OF THE OTHER CHILDREN IN SCHOOL, I DIDN'T EACH REALIZE THAT I HAD, THAT I WAS PLAYING.

THERE WAS ONLY ONE TIME IN GRADE SCHOOL WHERE I DID PLAY IN FRONT OF A CLASS, AND THE KIDS THAT AGE, BEING SO INTIMIDATED BY THE TRENDS AND WHAT THE POPULAR THING TO DO IS, THEY REALLY WEREN'T INTERESTED.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE MUSIC.

MOST OF THEIR PARENTS DIDN'T PLAY OR THEY DID NOT HAVE RELATIVES THAT PLAYED.

SO IT WAS SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW TO THEM.

I THOUGHT I ALWAYS PLAYED DANCES IN THE LOCAL AREA, AND AS MY CONFIDENCE IMPROVED, I STARTED PLAYING ALONG, JUST SITTING IN AND PLAYING ALONG WHEN HE WAS PLAYING OUT.

NEVER REALLY HAD TO ASK ANY SPECIAL TIPS BECAUSE WE WERE -- WE PLAYED TOGETHER QUITE A BIT, AND AS HE WAS PLAYING AROUND THE HOUSE, IF HE PLAYED SOMETHING THAT I LIKED, THAT SOME LITTLE THING THE WAY THAT HE PLAYED, I COULD WATCH HIM AND SEE WHAT HE WAS DOING.

I HAVE ALREADY HEARD A LOT OF THE MUSIC FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS.

IT STARTS TO -- YOU AUTOMATICALLY HIT AT LEAST THE BASICS OF IT.

AND AS I GOT TO PLAYING, THEN I COULD ASK HIM ABOUT EXTRA FINGERING TO GET SOME OTHER SOUNDS.

>> IT STARTED TO CHANGE THROUGH THE YEARS.

HARD WORK MOUNTED UP.

HIS TECHNIQUES, HIS WAY OF PLAYING MIGHT CHANGE, TOO.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU LIVE FOR IS TO SEE SOMEBODY BETTER THAN YOURSELF.

AND TO BE ABLE TO OVERCOME -- YOU CAN POSSIBLY SEE THE CHOPPINESS THAT I MIGHT HAVE THAT HE WAS ABLE TO SMOOTH OUT.

HE GETS AROUND QUITE A BIT AND PLAYING HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE, MORE SO THAN WHAT I DO, AND HE HEARS A LOT OF NEW TUNES, AND THE WHOLE BIT WITH MUSIC, IT'S -- IT'S ENDLESS.

AND WHEN YOU STOP LEARNING, AND DON'T ATTEMPT TO LEARN ANY MORE, NEW MUSIC AT ALL, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU MISS OUT ON A LOT.

>> WHETHER IT'S A WALTZ OR A JIG, BY PLAYING DIFFERENT, MORE OF A VARIETY OF MUSIC, IT MAKES YOU MORE -- WELL, IT MAKES MORE OF A ROUNDED MUSICIAN.

COMPARING FIDDLERS OFTEN TIMES IS LIKE COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES BECAUSE IT'S REALLY JUST PERSONAL PREFERENCE.

HOW SOMEONE WANTS TO BOW SOMETHING, OR HOW THEIR FINGERING IS.

THE TUNE IS BASICALLY THE SAME.

>> GIVE THESE BOYS A GREAT BIG HAND.

[APPLAUSE] >> BEING IN A FARMING COMMUNITY YOU DID NOT GO TO SOMEONE'S HOUSE AND THEY PULLED OUT A GUITAR AND A BIG SPEAKER AND SIT DOWN AND START PLAYING SOME FOREIGN MUSIC THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD BEFORE.

IT WAS ALWAYS THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC THAT WAS HEARD.

THE KITCHEN HOPS, THEY ARE COMING BACK.

I HOPE THAT THEY ARE COMING BACK.

WE HAD A FEW HERE AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORING TOWNS HAVE HAD THEM.

SO IT'S GOOD TO SEE DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

YOU GO TO THEM AND THE PEOPLE THAT YOU NEVER SEE BEFORE AND PEOPLE YOU WOULD NOT NORMALLY MEET, AND YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHANCE TO MEET SOMEBODY YOU NEVER KNEW PLAYED.

>> I MET THE COREY FAMILY THROUGH THE FIDDLE CLUBS LIKE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLER'S CLUB AND THE NORTHEAST IN THE EARLY 1970s.

AND I'VE BEEN PLAYING WITH THE COASTER SINCE THEN.

>> THE FIDDLE SEEMS TO BE AN INSTRUMENT, ESPECIALLY IN THE STATE OF VERMONT.

AND IN NEW ENGLAND.

THERE SEEMS TO BE A NUMBER OF FIDDLE PLAYERS, AND THEY HAVE DIFFERENT STYLES OF PLAYING, BUT THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT INTERESTING.

AND WHEN YOU GO TO THESE FUNCTIONS, YOU NEVER KNOW WHO YOU ARE GOING TO MEET UP WITH, AND YOU HEAR A LOT OF DIFFERENT STYLES, AND PLUS YOU CAN LEARN A LOT, ESPECIALLY ANYBODY THAT IS PLAYING A FIDDLE.

>> GOOD.

>> MUSIC IS HANDED OUT BY THE SHEET MUSIC, AND THIS IS ONE THAT MY GRANDFATHER PLAYED, AND IT GOES THIS WAY DOWN THE FAMILY, HOW IT WAS INTERPRETED.

AND THEY CAN PICK UP SHEET MUSIC AND GET SOMEONE THAT CAN READ MUSIC WELL AND PLAY IT, AND THEY WILL SAY WELL THIS IS THE NAME OF THIS SONG AND PLAY IT ACCORDING TO THE MUSIC.

AND YOU SAY WELL, THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT IS AT ALL.

THAT'S NOT HOW YOU PLAY IT.

THAT DOES NOT SOUND RIGHT.

THE MUSIC IS PASSED ON THE WAY IT IS PLAYED, NOT THE WAY IT IS WRITTEN.

THERE IS A PLACE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, YOU HAVE GOT THE FLAME OF THE SONG, THEY WILL SEND YOU THE MUSIC.

IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU CAN PLAY THE SONG THE WAY IT SHOULD BE PLAYED AFTER YOU LEARN THE NOTES.

THE MUSIC IS SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO SOMEBODY PLAY TO REALLY GET -- THERE IS MORE FEELING IN IT.

THAN WHAT YOU CAN, WHAT YOU CAN READ.

THERE IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FEELING THAT GOES INTO THE MUSIC IN ORDER TO GET THE EXPRESSION OF THE MUSIC OUT.

SOMEBODY CAN COME IN FROM DOWN COUNTRY, AND ANY PLACE, ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY AND PLAY IT, WITH THE SAME KIND OF INTERESTS AND FEELING THAT THE PEOPLE AROUND HERE PLAY IT.

I DON'T SEE ANY PROBLEM WITH IT.

>> IT'S NICE TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE PLAYING THE MUSIC.

NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE FROM.

AS LONG AS THEY -- IF THEY HAVE THE FEELING THAT THEY LIKE WHAT THEY ARE PLAYING, AND THEY ARE NATURAL ABOUT IT, BECAUSE YOU CAN REALLY TELL IT'S GOTTEN TO THE POINT NOW WHERE THERE IS NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE LEARNING TO PLAY THE FIDDLE.

THEY AR NOT DOING IT ON THEIR OWN.

A LOT OF IT IS THEY ARE BEING TRAINED TO PLAY IT.

AND YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEONE WHO IS BEING TRAINED AND SOMEONE WHO IS LEARNING IT THE WAY THAT THEY WANT TO LEARN IT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO LEARN IT.

>> BEING SOMEONE COMING FROM OUTSIDE THE TRADITION MYSELF, I LIKE TO THINK THAT THERE IS ROOM FOR SOMEONE, SOMEONE LIKE ME TO BE INVOLVED IN THE MUSIC OF THAT CULTURE.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WHAT MAKES A TRADITION A TRADITION IS THAT IT'S A BIG PART OF SOMEBODY'S LIFE, AND IT'S BEEN A PART OF THEIR LIFE FOR A LONG TIME.

AND IT INFLUENCES HOW YOU THINK, HOW YOU LIVE, WHAT YOU DO FOR ENTERTAINMENT, THE PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW, AND ETC.

I THINK THAT THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRADITIONAL PLAYERS ON US IS THAT WE SHAPE OUR LIVES IN MANY WAYS BY THEIR EXAMPLE.

BY THE EXAMPLE OF THEIR MUSIC AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE JOY THAT THEY FIND IN THE, IN THE DANCE AND THE TUNES AND THE SONGS THAT THEY PERFORM.

AS MUCH AS WE CAN REPEAT THAT, OR COPY THAT AS BEST THAT WE CAN, THAT BECOMES A PART OF US.

SO TO THAT EXTENT, WE ARE PART OF THE YOU KNOW, WE LIKE TO THINK, AND I SPEAK WE, AS SOMEONE FROM OUTSIDE THE TRADITION GOING AND TRYING TO PLAY THE MUSIC AND BEING INTERESTED IN IT.

THAT BECOMES A PART OF OUR LIFE.

AND IN THAT WAY, WE HAVE AN IDENTITY WITH A TRADITION AS IT EXISTS NOW, AND AS IT EXISTED IN THE PAST.

AND PROBABLY WILL HAVE AN INFLUENCE ON IT IN THE FUTURE.

>> YOU DON'T HEAR IT ON THE RADIO.

STATIONS WOULD BE OUT OF THE BUSINESS BY TOMORROW IF THEY PLAYED TODAY AND THIS WOULD BE THEIR MUSIC TO PLAY.

I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS THAT MANY PEOPLE TO REALLY KNOW THAT THERE IS THIS KIND OF MUSIC THAT EXISTS AS FAR AS -- MAYBE NOBODY WANTS TO KNOW.

WE DEPEND ON THE YOUNG PEOPLE TO KEEP IT PASSED ON, BUT WHEN THEY CAN LEARN THE BEST, OR LEARN THE FASTEST, THEY ARE BUSY BEING THEMSELVES AND BEING INDEPENDENT AND THEIR PARENTS LIKE THERE KIND OF THING, THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT THEY LIKE THE MOST.

SO THEY KIND OF GO TO OTHER LIKE THE NATURAL SHIFT OF GOING TO ANOTHER KIND OF MUSIC RIGHT OFF THE BAT TO BEGIN WITH.

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS, WE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT.

THERE USED TO BE A LOT OF FIDDLERS THAT USED, THERE USED TO BE A LOT OF LUMBERJACKS, AND THAT WAS THEIR WAY OF SURVIVING THROUGH THE WEEK.

WHEN THEY GO BACK IN THE WOODS AND YOU STAY THERE FOR A WHILE, YOU ARE GLAD THERE WAS NOT A FIDDLER OR A HARMONICA, AND THEY WROTE THEIR OWN SONGS, AND PUT THEMSELVES INTO THE MUSIC.

YOU CAN'T FORCE SOMEBODY TO LEARN MUSIC.

YOU CAN'T FORCE SOMEBODY TO LIKE THE MUSIC.

EITHER THEY LIKE IT OR THEY DON'T, AND THOSE THAT LIKE IT WILL PASS IT ON AND CARRY ON.

THEY CANNOT HELP NOT TO.

>> FREEMAN COREY IS NOT THE ONLY OLDER MUSICIAN THAT TOLD ME WHEN THEY HEARD A TUNE OR SONG ONCE, THEY PRETTY MUCH HAD IT AFTER THAT.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD DO THAT TODAY.

I DON'T THINK THAT WE WOULD NEED TO, EITHER.

WE HAVE GOT MACHINES TO HELP US OUT NOW, LIKE THIS ONE RIGHT HERE.

I HAVE GOT TEACHERS IN NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, AND TEXAS AND ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND IF I WANT A LESSON WITH ONE OF THEM TODAY, THERE IT IS.

TOO FAST?

THEY CAN OFFER THEIR ENTHUSIASM A LITTLE BIT.

A PIECE OF CAKE.

OF COURSE IT DOES NOT REALLY REPLACE HAVING A TEACHER UNDER THE SAME ROOF WITH YOU OR DOWN THE STREET.

BUT LET'S FACE IT, I DON'T THINK THAT FREEMAN COREY WOULD HAVE US ALL UNDER HIS ROOF.

I CAN STILL BE LEARNING FROM HIM NO MATTER WHERE I AM.

THAT REMINDS ME I HAVE GOT A LESSON WITH FREEMAN RIGHT NOW.

WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.

>> THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY A GRANTED FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.