Women of Old Time Music: Tradition & Change in the Missouri Ozarks

[@RichardChelson]

This was an excellent telling of the music and women of the Ozarks. Thank you, I'm Missouri born and bred and really appreciate seeing the history being preserved. I wish we had more music parties around, it would make a great time. But like a lot of traditions, everything seems to slowly vanish.

[@bonnieconley1057]

Loved this...all of it! Thank you to all!

[@lucyboheme540]

Reminds me of my wife’s Grandmother. She was from a holler outside of Van Buren and was the coolest. Miss her.

[@godschildyes]

This was so beautiful! I will never forget these ladies! Thank you so very much!

[@leerite3587]

What a wonderful video, thanks for posting.

[@robinhood480]

I am encouraged by this to keep playing in the old time style. Love it ! Also bluegrass, folk, and Appalachian. With roots in the Scottish &Irish tunes. I listen to them all with pleasure but play and sing more of these songs . Fiddle, guitar, mostly and mandolin .Have been working on banjo .

[@ArkRed1]

Super fine job Ms. Hobbs.

[@WilliamCerf]

How wonderful is this!!!!

[@rebekahmcfatridge6691]

oh my I miss home so very much.....thank you for this lovely video..but women did not get chained to anything....my grandma and all my kin loved their lives no chains ....

[@Ellenslife851]

I agree a 💯 % that’s the good life Living in the country is simpler Back then and still today in my eyes if you live like me

[@stephengreen7758]

Haven't enjoyed anything so much in a while. Thanks.

[@strumstering]

Holly's video is a beautiful perspective on the sense of community that music creates when the emphasis is on participation and inclusion. The contrasting element of the music business in Branson was very striking and thought-provoking.

[@hhhobbs1]

Thanks so much!

[@WilliamsGail1]

What an excellent video! Thanks for making and sharing it.

[@hhhobbs1]

thanks so much!

[@whatabouttheearth]

Thanks for making and uploading this.

[@alyredoiron8140]

Very very nice... Greatly enjoyed... TU.. Alyre & Lorenzo.

[@alyredoiron8140]

Beautiful video.. Lovely music... Greatly enjoyed listening... TU.. Alyre & Lorenzo.

[@bigriver2000]

Wonderful video, it brings me back to the days when my father chorded along with the local farmer fiddler in the Pontiac Quebec and the Ottawa Valley, Canada. Very similar. Thank you.

[@luvthemusic73]

Holly, thank you so much for the wonderful video. I know a few of these women. I remember a time when men would say that us girls weren't supposed to play music, but be in the kitchen and do women things. I'm glad I never listened to them, and glad these wonderful women didn't either. Thanks again, I love this.

[@battlehrfred]

wow Amazing @ 38.38 this lady crafted these voilins!! a violin maker and a player. talented for sure ,just amazing people. great 100-100

[@MrAgnesday]

willl pass it along to UK old-timers. yes they do exist!

[@joshuacarne6966]

This is fantastic.

[@ArkRed1]

Well there's Gordon McCann. Had no idea he was still around.Good to see him still working to preserve the old fiddle tunes.

[@jamiecee4960]

My cousin Carol is on here. I remember the Whippoorwill song. Grandma did have beautiful handwriting. I remember Music parties as a kid. I guess they still have them. Nothing wrong with the Women learning the Fiddle. The Irish teaches the young girls to learn how to play the Fiddles.

[@SuperGrumpy100]

Love it!!!

[@strumstering]

There's a discussion about Holly's film on Banjo Hangout www.banjohangout.org/topic/293623 I got my initial musical imprint in Missouri. Although not cognizant of the traditional music in the Ozark communities, depicted in this film I had a built-in influence, as my dad played mandolin. There's not enough that can be said about growing up around homegrown music and it would be a shame to have that usurped by the commercialization of music, as this film brings home.

[@hhhobbs1]

Great to see, thanks for letting me know

[@Ellenslife851]

I agree very negative But you have to remember that a lot of the people that were from that area that became big-time musicians for some reason held a grudge because of the fact that they were kept poor as they’re younger life. But that’s because they didn’t know that it was nothing they could do it was to government that was not providing for them the way they should and helping their families out in the time of need like the government was promising to do at those times And I agree not to mention the reporters that would come in there and try to interview these people in their lives and make false accusations about their lives just to make it sound better these people were poor but proud and still are today proud people no matter the circumstances I personally believe there should have been more done years ago for the mountain people they deserved better than what they got but the government was never going to help them because Because you have to remember they wanted to be free from the ties of modern day America at the time and that’s what the government didn’t want so that’s why they didn’t bother helping them for that reason because of the way they lived And still live to this day

[@BookFarmerKC]

Love to have a copy of this DVD here at the Olathe Public Library. Give us a call if you have any details about availability.

[@hhhobbs1]

Hi Ralph, the film is available on Folkstreams.net, thanks for your interest!

[@fozalinko]

Hi can any one help me find the chords and lyrics to pretty little miss sung by Violet Long at 19:24. I can only find versions by Ralph Stanley Alisson Krauss and others and its not the same version as this song.

[@bucknuts6762]

looks like a Martin HD-28 Herringbone

[@uptonsavoie]

After mourning the paucity of the old songs, nearly all of the songs demonstrated are not folk songs, but ones that were composed comparatively recently. No "Barbara Allen"? No "Banks of the Ohio"? No "Old Joe Clark"?

[@uptonsavoie]

To be fair, "Crooked Stovepipe," "Pretty Little Miss," and a few others were delights. I had the privilege of seeing and jamming with the late Vesta Johnson, who was one of those women who flouted tradition by fiddling--she entered contests too and was a couple of times told by the judges that they could not award first prize to her, in fear of the wrath of men who would be outraged and humiliated by being beaten by a woman.

[@oldchickenlady]

I can't stand Branson since it's tore down the mountains and become big city

[@rayunseitig6367]

What now, me "provincia" well maybe. --- shoot.

[@chazziemac]

Jcp

[@lowellmorse6723]

Oh Poo, I thought it was about the music.....