Howard Moore, Saunook, Haywood County, North Carolina
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Howard Moore was from Saunook, in Haywood County, North Carolina when recorded in 1939. As a CCC enrollee, he would probably have been in his early to mid 20s.
[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]
Last Friday night, why, Joe Hall come to see us over here at Waynesville, and uh he’s going to make some recordings, he came down the road and I was sitting across the road from Bone Hall’s stand, and uh so he uh stopped, and uh boys, they were go-, all gone, and uh so he picked me up and took me down to the boy’s house, and uh he was at home and Bill Moore, my brother, we were hunting for him, him and some more boys was gone off that was going to help us make records, and so we came to Hazelwood a-hunting them, couldn’t find them anywhere, we went back to Saunook, and uh we thought we’d lost out and we had it in mind to go back down and hunt Bill, and we went back down, he wasn’t there
HOWARD MOORE, Saunook, Haywood County, North Carolina / Disc 161b
Well, along about twelve o’clock, why we found them, we all got together and went up the road in Barber’s orchard and had a lot of music, singing, at least we tried, and so we stayed in the orchard till three o’clock the next morning, the next day I was mighty sleepy, and when was that?