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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Calvin and Viola Cole:&#039;&#039;&#039; lived in a mobile home across from Howard Hall’s home.  They were an extremely friendly couple, only too willing to let me listen to their music.  ...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Calvin and Viola Cole:&#039;&#039;&#039; lived in a mobile home across from Howard Hall’s home.&amp;nbsp; They were an extremely friendly couple, only too willing to let me listen to their music.&amp;nbsp; During my first visits I recorded Calvin’s banjo-playing.&amp;nbsp; But had to wait until the following summer before I could persuade Viola to let me record some of the ballads that she had learnt from her mother.&amp;nbsp; Calvin, a small, wiry man, was one of the people who taught me to play clawhammer-banjo.&amp;nbsp; Like Dan Tate, who only lived a mile or so from Calvin &amp; Viola’s home, he was also recorded for the Library of Congress by Professor Fletcher Collins.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs Far in the Mountains (MTCD321-4)&#039;&#039;</div>

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