"They's lots more but we better eat if we're goin' to carry you to THE FIDDLERS' CONVENTION."
We went back to the kitchen and sat down to a steaming mess of salt pork, collard greens, cowpeas and cornbread.
"Where's the convention?, said Knox.
"Valleyhead," said Henry, piloting a well-forked bale of greens into his mouth.
"Biggest of the year," he continued. "Fiddlers from all over the state. Ez Cowart and his boys- 'Cowart's Hell-Raisin Quintet' they call 'emselves- be comin' through the country from Lawrence County. They say Bob Taylor is comin' by train from Tennessee. Then there's Monkey Brown from Tuscaloosa County and the Rice Brothers an' Chun Gizzard an' a heap more. Let's get movin'. I'm as nervous as an old woman in a mother hubbard standin' on an anthill." (quoted passage from STARS FELL ON ALABAMA, clipping from the October 16, 1921 TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
We went back to the kitchen and sat down to a steaming mess of salt pork, collard greens, cowpeas and cornbread.
"Where's the convention?, said Knox.
"Valleyhead," said Henry, piloting a well-forked bale of greens into his mouth.
"Biggest of the year," he continued. "Fiddlers from all over the state. Ez Cowart and his boys- 'Cowart's Hell-Raisin Quintet' they call 'emselves- be comin' through the country from Lawrence County. They say Bob Taylor is comin' by train from Tennessee. Then there's Monkey Brown from Tuscaloosa County and the Rice Brothers an' Chun Gizzard an' a heap more. Let's get movin'. I'm as nervous as an old woman in a mother hubbard standin' on an anthill." (quoted passage from STARS FELL ON ALABAMA, clipping from the October 16, 1921 TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
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