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Bill Moore was 21 years of age when recorded in 1939. He was living at Saunook, in Haywood County, North Carolina.  He had about eight years of formal education and worked as a musician and a truck driver for the CCC.  In the latter capacity he often drove Joseph Hall around the Smokies and conducted a few short interviews himself.

[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]

Name is Bill Moore, I’ve been in CCs going on six years, I come the six, in the CCs July the fifteenth, in the year.

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My name is Bill Moore, I live in Waynesville, North Carolina, I was raised up on a farm, in my first life, I'll say I was three year old, I learned to play a tune on a banjo, and from that I learned how to play a guitar, and when I became to be sixteen years old, I joined the CCC’s, I was sent to Albemarle, North Carolina, I stayed in South Carolina three years with my grandparents, and the most of my life I have spent in the CC’s.