They used to wouldn't let you pay a guitar around partly because they called it sinful music- the devil's music, you know?

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COCA
Entry: 
1037
Example: 
They used to wouldn't let you pay a guitar around partly because they called it sinful music- the devil's music, you know?
Modal 1: 
used to
Modal 2: 
wouldn't
Gender: 
Male
Race/Ethnicity: 
Black
Age: 
80
Level of Education: 
Elementary School
Home Community, Town, or State: 
MS (Winona)
Location Collected: 
Radio
Year: 
1994
Relation to Addressee: 
interviewee to interviewer
Medium: 
Spoken
Sentence Structure: 
1.3
Status: 
Naturalistic
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Source: NPR Weekend. Full Context: an/I'm a simple man/simple man/oh, I'm a simple man HANSEN Pops Staples singing a song that appears on his new CD Father Father. Do you think, to a certain extent, the influence of Thomas Dorsey sp, who really changed gospel music sort of almost gave you the permission to play the guitar the way that you felt it within the context of gospel music? Mr. STAPLES: Yeah, Thomas Dorsey, got me starting to using some of your songs, singing my way, that put me in the church with a guitar. They used to wouldn't let you p[l]ay a guitar around partly because they called it sinful music- the devil's music, you know? And after we started singin' in the' 50s, the ministers and the people saw that we were sincere and they permitted the Staples Singers to go in church. They let us come in because they had faith and confidence that we was trying to be truthful and not be a phony. I don't like to be no phony about nothing. If you're going