1 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:16,366 (Music playing) 2 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:30,166 (Music playing) 3 00:00:36,166 --> 00:00:39,333 HI, I'M DAVE SHUFFETT AND WELCOME TO KENTUCKY LIFE 4 00:00:39,433 --> 00:00:41,533 I'M SO GLAD YOU COULD COME ALONG TONIGHT 5 00:00:41,633 --> 00:00:44,366 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING DOWN ROADS AND WATERWAYS 6 00:00:44,466 --> 00:00:45,933 FEW FOLKS TRAVEL ANY MORE 7 00:00:46,766 --> 00:00:49,933 FIRST WE'LL LISTEN TO SOME OLD-TIME FIDDLE MUSIC 8 00:00:50,033 --> 00:00:53,066 AND MEET A MAN WHO'S DEDICATED SOME 30 YEARS 9 00:00:53,166 --> 00:00:55,666 TO UNDERSTANDING AND DOCUMENTING ITS TRADITIONS 10 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:59,700 THEN WE PUT DOWN THE TOP ON A '60s CONVERTIBLE 11 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,300 THAT'S MORE THAN A CAR 12 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,633 YOU COULD SAY OUR SHOW TONIGHT IS SOMETHING OF A TIME CAPSULE 13 00:01:06,333 --> 00:01:07,566 THROUGH OUR TWO STORIES 14 00:01:07,666 --> 00:01:10,433 WE MEET PEOPLE PROFOUNDLY INTERESTED IN THE PAST 15 00:01:11,233 --> 00:01:15,266 JOHN HARROD IS A FORMER RHODES SCHOLAR AND HISTORY TEACHER 16 00:01:15,366 --> 00:01:16,900 A MUSICIAN, TOO 17 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,400 IN THE 1970s 18 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:20,766 HE BECAME INTERESTED IN THE FAST DISAPPEARING 19 00:01:20,866 --> 00:01:22,466 FIDDLE TRADITIONS OF KENTUCKY 20 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,233 HE AND FRIENDS SOUGHT OUT THE PRACTITIONERS 21 00:01:26,333 --> 00:01:28,366 AND BECAME PART OF THEIR LIVES 22 00:01:28,466 --> 00:01:29,766 THEY LEARNED FROM THEM 23 00:01:29,866 --> 00:01:31,466 RECORDED THEIR TUNES 24 00:01:31,566 --> 00:01:33,233 JOHN EVEN PERFORMS THEM 25 00:01:33,333 --> 00:01:35,700 AS A MEMBER OF A GROUP CALLED "THE CLODHOPPERS" 26 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,700 IT WAS A MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP 27 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,033 THE FIDDLERS KNEW THAT WHAT THEY DID WAS QUITE OLD 28 00:01:42,133 --> 00:01:45,100 JOHN CAME ALONG JUST WHEN THEY WERE THINKING THEIR MUSIC 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,466 OUGHT TO BE RECORDED 30 00:01:47,166 --> 00:01:49,133 IT WAS HISTORY SPEAKING AFTER ALL 31 00:01:49,933 --> 00:01:53,666 AND SOMETIMES YOU COULD HEAR ECHOES FROM AS FAR AWAY 32 00:01:53,766 --> 00:01:55,100 AS THE CIVIL WAR 33 00:01:55,566 --> 00:02:05,600 ♪ ♪ 34 00:02:10,133 --> 00:02:20,100 ♪ ♪ 35 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:22,933 ALL RIGHT 36 00:02:23,033 --> 00:02:23,566 ALL RIGHT 37 00:02:23,666 --> 00:02:25,000 ALL RIGHT, WONDERFUL 38 00:02:26,166 --> 00:02:28,066 THAT "CHRISTMAS CALICO'S" A GOOD OLD TUNE 39 00:02:28,166 --> 00:02:29,500 NOW WHERE, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT? 40 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,266 WAS THAT ONE OF YOUR... DID YOUR DAD PLAY THAT? 41 00:02:31,366 --> 00:02:32,966 UH, YEAH, MY DAD DID 42 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,066 (Chickens clucking) 43 00:02:36,166 --> 00:02:46,133 ♪ ♪ 44 00:02:51,700 --> 00:02:53,433 WELL, THE FIDDLE WOULD BE... 45 00:02:53,533 --> 00:02:55,833 SOMETHING YOU COULD CARRY ON HORSEBACK 46 00:02:55,933 --> 00:02:57,800 OR YOU COULD CARRY IT IN A WAGON 47 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:00,433 UH, YOU COULD PACK IT OVER THE MOUNTAINS 48 00:03:00,533 --> 00:03:03,466 IF YOU WERE COMING INTO KENTUCKY FROM NORTH CAROLINA 49 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:08,133 UH, IT WAS EVEN SOMETHING THAT, THAT WAS FAIRLY EASILY MADE 50 00:03:08,233 --> 00:03:11,166 UH, I'VE SEEN SOME, SOME PRETTY GOOD FIDDLE 51 00:03:11,266 --> 00:03:14,066 FIDDLES MADE WITH NOT MUCH MORE THAN A POCKET KNIFE 52 00:03:14,166 --> 00:03:16,300 UH, AND YOU COULD PLAY ON THEM 53 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,900 THERE WERE, THERE WERE EVEN LITTLE TOY FIDDLES 54 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,766 MADE OUT OF CORNSTALKS 55 00:03:20,866 --> 00:03:24,933 AND A LITTLE BETTER FIDDLES MADE OUT OF THE OLD WOODEN CIGAR BOXES 56 00:03:25,033 --> 00:03:26,433 SOMETIMES YOU SEE THOSE 57 00:03:26,533 --> 00:03:30,566 AND SO IT WAS SOMETHING THAT, THAT UH, COULD BE MADE 58 00:03:30,666 --> 00:03:33,600 AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CARRIED AND SO 59 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:35,966 UH, CERTAINLY THE FIDDLE 60 00:03:36,066 --> 00:03:37,900 WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 61 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 THAT WAS BROUGHT INTO KENTUCKY 62 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:42,966 UH, BY, BY EUROPEAN PEOPLE 63 00:03:43,066 --> 00:03:44,466 OR PEOPLE FROM THE EAST COAST 64 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:51,066 AND UH, THERE'S RECORDS OF THE FIDDLE FROM THE VARIOUS... 65 00:03:51,166 --> 00:03:53,466 VERY EARLIEST TIME OF KENTUCKY HISTORY 66 00:03:53,566 --> 00:04:03,600 ♪ ♪ 67 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:08,633 THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, KENTUCKY IS FIDDLE COUNTRY 68 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:10,300 BACK IN THE 1970s 69 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,833 I BEGAN TO WONDER WHY KENTUCKY HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE 70 00:04:12,933 --> 00:04:14,233 IN THE HISTORY OF FIDDLING 71 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:18,533 SO A BUNCH OF US, THE LATE GUS MEADE, MARK WILSON AND SOME OTHERS 72 00:04:18,633 --> 00:04:19,966 TOOK OFF ON THE BACKROADS 73 00:04:20,066 --> 00:04:21,733 AND WE COVERED MANY MILES 74 00:04:21,833 --> 00:04:23,833 WE CROSSED A LOT OF CREEKS AND SWINGING BRIDGES 75 00:04:23,933 --> 00:04:26,066 TO TRY AND TRACE BACK THE LOCAL TRADITIONS 76 00:04:26,866 --> 00:04:30,266 AND WE WANTED TO DESCRIBE FOR POSTERITY THE CONDITIONS THAT 77 00:04:30,366 --> 00:04:32,233 ENABLED THESE TRADITIONS TO FLOURISH 78 00:04:32,333 --> 00:04:35,466 ♪ ♪ 79 00:04:35,566 --> 00:04:38,400 I'M NOT ONLY A FIDDLER, I'M ALSO A HISTORY TEACHER 80 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:40,800 AND I SUPPOSE I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CURIOUS ABOUT THE ORIGINS 81 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:42,266 OF ANYTHING THAT INTERESTS ME 82 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,566 THESE DAYS I PLAY WITH A GROUP CALLED THE KENTUCKY CLODHOPPERS 83 00:04:49,233 --> 00:04:50,866 EVERYWHERE I GO, I HEAR A NEW TUNE 84 00:04:50,966 --> 00:04:53,266 AND MEET OTHER FIDDLERS WHO WANT TO LEARN THE TUNES I PLAY 85 00:04:53,366 --> 00:05:03,400 ♪ ♪ 86 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,900 WORKSHOPS PROVIDE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY 87 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,333 TO PASS ON THE FIDDLE TRADITION THAT GOES SO FAR BACK 88 00:05:10,433 --> 00:05:11,900 IN THE HISTORY OF KENTUCKY 89 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,200 AND OUR COUNTRY 90 00:05:14,166 --> 00:05:18,033 AND I'VE CONTINUED THE WORK GUS, MARK AND I STARTED SO LONG AGO 91 00:05:18,133 --> 00:05:19,300 PRESERVING THE TECHNIQUES 92 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,166 AND THE MUSIC OF THE OLD-TIME FIDDLERS 93 00:05:21,266 --> 00:05:23,300 ♪ ♪ 94 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,566 I THINK OUR MOTIVE WAS REALLY TO LEARN TO PLAY THE FIDDLE 95 00:05:26,666 --> 00:05:30,866 UH, WHEN, WHEN GUS AND I WERE, WERE DOING THIS COLLECTING 96 00:05:30,966 --> 00:05:34,300 WE WEREN'T AT THE TIME THINKING ABOUT PUTTING IT OUT ON A RECORD 97 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,533 WE WERE JUST SORT OF RECORDING IT 98 00:05:36,633 --> 00:05:39,400 FOR OURSELVES SO WE COULD STUDY IT AND LEARN TO PLAY IT 99 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:40,866 IN THE OLD-TIME WAY 100 00:05:41,666 --> 00:05:43,800 AND UH, THERE WAS A LOT OF STUFF OUT THERE THAT 101 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:46,433 NOBODY ELSE WAS PLAYING AND NOBODY ELSE WAS LEARNING 102 00:05:46,533 --> 00:05:50,900 AND SO, THAT, THAT MADE IT UH, EVEN MORE INTERESTING TO US 103 00:05:52,566 --> 00:05:56,466 ONE OF THE THINGS I TRY TO GET UH, MY STUDENTS TO STUDY 104 00:05:56,566 --> 00:05:58,900 IS, IS WATCHING THE BOW HAND 105 00:05:59,333 --> 00:06:01,233 AND THE... ♪ ♪ 106 00:06:01,333 --> 00:06:02,966 THE OLD-TIME FIDDLERS I LIKE 107 00:06:03,066 --> 00:06:04,400 BOWED IN CIRCLES 108 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:14,300 ♪ ♪ 109 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,433 IT IS NOT JUST A CIRCLE GOING ONE, ONE WAY 110 00:06:17,533 --> 00:06:19,800 YOU GET A CIRCLE GOING AND THEN YOU REVERSE IT 111 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:29,766 ♪ ♪ 112 00:06:30,366 --> 00:06:31,433 IT'S SYNCOPATED 113 00:06:31,533 --> 00:06:32,866 KIND OF LIKE RAGTIME 114 00:06:33,733 --> 00:06:35,000 IT'S A LITTLE BIT JERKY 115 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:45,666 ♪ ♪ 116 00:06:50,966 --> 00:06:53,366 SOMETIMES WE WONDERED WHY WE WERE SO CRAZY ABOUT IT 117 00:06:53,466 --> 00:06:56,900 BUT WE JUST... WE JUST CALLED THE WHOLE THING OF TALKING ABOUT IT 118 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,166 "FIDDLEOSOPHY" 119 00:06:58,266 --> 00:07:00,066 WE'D HAVE PROBABLY DRIVEN A LOT OF PEOPLE CRAZY 120 00:07:00,166 --> 00:07:01,433 IF THEY WEREN'T INTO IT 121 00:07:01,533 --> 00:07:04,666 BUT UH, THERE, THERE IS A KIND OF A LORE TO IT 122 00:07:04,766 --> 00:07:07,333 UH, AND THERE'S A LOT OF HISTORY TO IT 123 00:07:07,433 --> 00:07:09,500 THERE'S LORE ABOUT FIDDLES THEMSELVES 124 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,766 AND THERE'S LORE ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO 125 00:07:11,866 --> 00:07:13,066 WHO PLAYED THE FIDDLE 126 00:07:13,166 --> 00:07:16,166 AND THERE'S LORE ABOUT THE, THE NAMES OF THE TUNES 127 00:07:16,266 --> 00:07:17,666 AND WHAT THEY'RE NAMED AFTER 128 00:07:17,766 --> 00:07:20,533 AND SO THERE, THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF THAT JUST KIND OF 129 00:07:20,633 --> 00:07:23,166 IS ALL ABOUT THE AREA 130 00:07:23,266 --> 00:07:24,766 AND THE PLACES PEOPLE LIVED 131 00:07:24,866 --> 00:07:27,333 ♪ ♪ 132 00:07:27,433 --> 00:07:29,200 I'LL PLAY YOU A LITTLE BIT OF A TUNE 133 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:32,100 THAT PRETTY COMMON OLD-TIME TUNE 134 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,966 IN NORTH CAROLINA THEY CALL IT "PEAR TREE" 135 00:07:35,066 --> 00:07:37,333 AND IN KENTUCKY IT WAS CALLED "SHOOT THE TURKEY BUZZARD" 136 00:07:38,533 --> 00:07:40,933 A NORTH CAROLINA FIDDLER WOULD PLAY IT LIKE THIS 137 00:07:41,033 --> 00:07:51,000 ♪ ♪ 138 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:57,933 ♪ ♪ 139 00:07:58,033 --> 00:08:00,500 BUT A KENTUCKY FIDDLER WOULD BOW THAT LIKE THIS 140 00:08:01,066 --> 00:08:11,033 ♪ ♪ 141 00:08:12,133 --> 00:08:18,466 ♪ ♪ 142 00:08:20,133 --> 00:08:20,966 LET'S SEE 143 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:22,300 YOU READY? 144 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:23,400 YEAH 145 00:08:24,166 --> 00:08:25,500 "SUGARFOOT RAIN" 146 00:08:26,033 --> 00:08:27,033 ♪ ♪ 147 00:08:27,133 --> 00:08:28,366 THE NAMES OF OLD-TIME FIDDLE TUNES 148 00:08:28,466 --> 00:08:30,633 ARE AN EDUCATION IN THEMSELVES 149 00:08:30,733 --> 00:08:33,700 THEY'RE NAMED AFTER KENTUCKY TOWNS LIKE MAYSVILLE 150 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:34,866 SHIPPENPORT 151 00:08:34,966 --> 00:08:35,933 WHITESBURG 152 00:08:36,033 --> 00:08:38,200 AND ONE'S NAMED "CRAB ORCHARD QUICK STEP" 153 00:08:38,300 --> 00:08:39,666 ♪ ♪ 154 00:08:39,766 --> 00:08:41,700 THERE ARE TUNES NAMED FOR CIVIL WAR BATTLES 155 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,366 EVEN REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES 156 00:08:44,266 --> 00:08:45,700 AND CREEKS TOO 157 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,866 I BET YOU CAN'T FIND A CREEK IN KENTUCKY 158 00:08:47,966 --> 00:08:50,400 THAT AT ONE TIME DIDN'T HAVE A FIDDLE TUNE NAMED AFTER IT 159 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:52,766 TUNES LIKE "SEVEN CREEK" 160 00:08:52,866 --> 00:08:54,266 "BOATING UP THE SANDY" 161 00:08:54,366 --> 00:08:56,000 AND "THE BRUSHY FORK JOHNS CREEK" 162 00:08:57,333 --> 00:09:00,533 OTHER TUNES ARE NAMED FOR LADIES LIKE "MARTHA CAMPBELL" 163 00:09:00,633 --> 00:09:02,533 THOUGH NOBODY'S QUITE SURE WHO SHE WAS 164 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:04,633 AND TUNES ALSO BECAME KNOWN 165 00:09:04,733 --> 00:09:06,766 BY THE NAMES OF FAMOUS FIDDLERS THEMSELVES 166 00:09:06,866 --> 00:09:09,600 LIKE OLD VIRG, JIMMY ARTHURS AND BOB WALKER 167 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:12,966 ♪ ♪ 168 00:09:13,066 --> 00:09:16,766 (Chickens clucking) 169 00:09:16,866 --> 00:09:19,300 THE FIDDLERS THAT WE WERE MEETING IN THE 1970s 170 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,200 WERE, WERE OLD FIDDLERS 171 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:26,400 AND UH, THEY WERE PLAYING MUSIC THAT, THAT PREDATED THE RADIO 172 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:28,700 SO IT WAS TRADITIONAL 173 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,866 IN, IN THAT THEY DIDN'T LEARN IT OFF OF RECORDS 174 00:09:31,966 --> 00:09:33,200 OR FROM THE RADIO 175 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:35,966 BUT UH, IT WAS MUSIC THAT HAD BEEN PASSED DOWN 176 00:09:36,066 --> 00:09:37,300 IN THEIR COMMUNITIES 177 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,166 AND SO YOU COULD TRACE SOME OF THAT STUFF BACK 178 00:09:40,266 --> 00:09:41,766 BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR 179 00:09:41,866 --> 00:09:43,233 UH, EASILY 180 00:09:43,333 --> 00:09:46,533 DARLEY FULKS, UP IN WOLFE COUNTY LEARNED A LOT OF HIS MUSIC 181 00:09:46,633 --> 00:09:48,166 FROM HIS GRANDFATHER 182 00:09:48,266 --> 00:09:50,733 UH, WHO WAS PLAYING BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR 183 00:09:50,833 --> 00:09:53,900 SO, IN THE 1970s 184 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,466 WE WERE, WE WERE IN TOUCH WITH SOMETHING THAT 185 00:09:56,566 --> 00:09:58,000 THAT WAS OLDER THAN THE CIVIL WAR 186 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,733 AND OF COURSE, SOME OF IT WENT BACK BEFORE THAT TO UH 187 00:10:02,833 --> 00:10:04,400 ENGLAND, SCOTLAND 188 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:05,533 IRELAND 189 00:10:05,633 --> 00:10:07,433 UH, FRANCE 190 00:10:07,533 --> 00:10:08,866 AND GERMANY 191 00:10:08,966 --> 00:10:12,366 UH, WELL, EVEN AFRICA, A LOT OF THE MUSIC IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY 192 00:10:12,466 --> 00:10:14,300 REALLY UH, HAD A BLACK INFLUENCE 193 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:23,300 ♪ ♪ 194 00:10:24,066 --> 00:10:28,200 DARLEY FULKS SAID, "A TUNE IS A FEELING" 195 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:29,800 IN OTHER WORDS 196 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:32,466 ALL TUNES DON'T SOUND ALIKE 197 00:10:32,566 --> 00:10:33,633 LIKE SOME PEOPLE SAY 198 00:10:34,466 --> 00:10:36,200 BUT I THINK WHAT HE MEANT WAS 199 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:39,600 FOR HIM, EVERY TUNE HAD AN ASSOCIATION OF SOME KIND 200 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,333 EITHER WITH THE PERSON HE LEARNED IT FROM 201 00:10:42,433 --> 00:10:43,966 OR WHAT IT WAS NAMED AFTER 202 00:10:44,066 --> 00:10:45,866 OR SOME KIND OF STORY 203 00:10:45,966 --> 00:10:48,966 AND UH, DARLEY WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL PERSON 204 00:10:49,066 --> 00:10:52,066 AND HE... THERE WERE TUNES THAT HE WOULD PLAY 205 00:10:52,166 --> 00:10:54,466 THAT EVERY TIME HE WOULD PLAY THAT TUNE 206 00:10:54,566 --> 00:10:58,166 HE WOULD CRY BECAUSE IT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH SOMEBODY HE KNEW 207 00:10:58,266 --> 00:10:59,666 OR SOME SAD STORY 208 00:10:59,766 --> 00:11:02,600 AND IT DIDN'T MATTER HOW MANY TIMES HE PLAYED THAT TUNE 209 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:06,100 HE COULD PLAY TUNES THAT WOULD, WOULD MAKE HIM CRY 210 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:11,166 AND SO UH, I UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE MEANT BY THIS 211 00:11:11,266 --> 00:11:13,100 BUT EVERY, EVERY TUNE 212 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,733 HAS GOT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT MOOD 213 00:11:14,833 --> 00:11:17,266 AND A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FEEL TO IT 214 00:11:17,366 --> 00:11:21,666 AND UH, TO ME, IT'S HARD TO LEARN A FIDDLE TUNE 215 00:11:21,766 --> 00:11:22,633 JUST BY EAR 216 00:11:22,733 --> 00:11:24,433 YOU CAN LEARN THE TUNE BY EAR 217 00:11:24,533 --> 00:11:25,533 YOU CAN PICK OUT THE NOTES 218 00:11:25,633 --> 00:11:27,833 BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 219 00:11:27,933 --> 00:11:30,166 THAT WE ALWAYS NOTICED ABOUT IT WAS 220 00:11:30,266 --> 00:11:31,800 YOU HAVE TO SEE IT 221 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,100 AND WHEN I TRY TO TEACH FIDDLING 222 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,366 LIKE UP THERE AT WHITESBURG 223 00:11:37,466 --> 00:11:40,833 UH, I EMPHASIZE THE, THE VISUAL PARTS OF IT 224 00:11:40,933 --> 00:11:45,300 AND I DO ALL THESE UH, EXERCISES OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT 225 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,233 WHAT SOMEBODY'S DOING JUST BY WATCHING THEIR BOW HAND 226 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:52,333 BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY I COULD FIGURE OUT SOME OF THAT STUFF 227 00:11:53,466 --> 00:11:56,400 IT'S REALLY GRATIFYING TO BE ABLE TO PASS ON THIS MUSIC 228 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:58,366 I'VE LED WORKSHOPS AT BEREA COLLEGE 229 00:11:58,466 --> 00:12:01,400 APPALSHOP AND THE COWAN CREEK MOUNTAIN MUSIC SCHOOL 230 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:03,800 THAT HOSTED A GATHERING OF SOME OF THE AREA'S FINEST 231 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:05,300 OLD-TIME MUSICIANS 232 00:12:06,433 --> 00:12:08,466 THE WORKSHOPS AND JAM SESSIONS AT COWAN CREEK 233 00:12:08,566 --> 00:12:11,266 LET US BRING IN GOOD FIDDLERS LIKE PAUL DAVID SMITH 234 00:12:11,366 --> 00:12:13,733 TO SHARE TUNES AND STORIES WITH THE YOUNGER PLAYERS 235 00:12:13,833 --> 00:12:15,866 ♪ ♪ 236 00:12:15,966 --> 00:12:18,066 THAT TUNE'S CALLED "DEVIL EAT THE GROUNDHOG" 237 00:12:18,766 --> 00:12:20,933 IT'S ONE OF "SNAKE" CHAPMAN'S TUNES 238 00:12:21,033 --> 00:12:22,700 IT'S ABOUT DOG NAMED "DEVIL" 239 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,466 THAT ATE THE MAN'S GROUNDHOG BEFORE HE COULD SKIN HIM OUT 240 00:12:25,566 --> 00:12:35,533 ♪ ♪ 241 00:12:36,966 --> 00:12:40,266 WE'RE REALLY INTO, INTO THE TONES OF FIDDLES 242 00:12:40,366 --> 00:12:41,600 AND WE KIND OF PUT... 243 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:43,900 DRAG YOUR BOW ACROSS IT AND SHOW THEM HOW DARK IT SOUNDS 244 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:51,700 ♪ ♪ 245 00:12:52,166 --> 00:12:53,400 SEE, IT KIND OF GROWLS AT YOU 246 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:54,166 YEAH 247 00:12:54,266 --> 00:12:55,300 AND HERE'S MINE 248 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:01,466 ♪ ♪ 249 00:13:02,166 --> 00:13:05,500 IT'S A REAL DARK WOODY SOUND AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THIS 250 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:06,566 SOME PEOPLE LIKE... 251 00:13:06,666 --> 00:13:07,666 NO, SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEM BRIGHT 252 00:13:07,966 --> 00:13:10,033 BUT FIDDLERS... 253 00:13:10,133 --> 00:13:11,200 I KNOW I AM 254 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:12,200 OR HAVE BEEN 255 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:13,566 AND I'M SURE YOU HAVE 256 00:13:13,666 --> 00:13:14,800 DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS 257 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:17,800 ARE CONSTANTLY SEARCHING FOR, FOR... 258 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:18,800 A BETTER FIDDLE 259 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:19,933 YOU KNOW 260 00:13:20,033 --> 00:13:21,266 YOU LOOK FOR SOMETHING 261 00:13:21,366 --> 00:13:23,266 THAT SOUNDS MORE TO YOUR NOTION 262 00:13:23,366 --> 00:13:25,600 THIS IS THE BEST THAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO COME UP WITH 263 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:26,600 (Laughing) 264 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:28,166 I THINK LIKE THAT BUMPER STICKER SAYS 265 00:13:28,266 --> 00:13:28,933 úI FOUND IT' 266 00:13:29,033 --> 00:13:30,033 YEAH 267 00:13:30,133 --> 00:13:30,933 (Laughing) 268 00:13:31,033 --> 00:13:32,266 I'M NOT REALLY LOOKING ANY MORE 269 00:13:32,366 --> 00:13:36,900 BUT UH, MINE'S AN OLD UH, I GUESS, JUNK STORE FIDDLE THAT UH 270 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,733 WAS ALL BUSTED UP AND I TOOK IT TO MY FRIEND-- GARY CORNETT 271 00:13:39,833 --> 00:13:41,000 AND HE RESTORED IT 272 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:44,600 AND THIS IS PROBABLY FROM THE 18th CENTURY AND IT'S UH 273 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:46,533 WELL, IT'S GOT A LOT OF CRACKS IN IT 274 00:13:46,633 --> 00:13:48,000 BUT THAT JUST MAKES IT SWEETER 275 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:49,400 THAT'S RIGHT 276 00:13:50,233 --> 00:13:52,033 IT'S GOT A LOT, IT'S GOT A LOT OF CHARACTER 277 00:13:52,133 --> 00:13:57,033 ♪ ♪ 278 00:13:57,133 --> 00:13:58,966 MOST OF THE FIDDLE MUSIC, NOT ALL OF IT 279 00:13:59,066 --> 00:14:03,900 WAS ORIGINALLY DANCE MUSIC AND SO IT SORT OF EVOLVED 280 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,600 AS, AS MUSIC THAT PROPELS A DANCE 281 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:10,466 AND SO I THINK IT STILL HAS THAT AFFECT ON PEOPLE 282 00:14:10,566 --> 00:14:16,166 THE RHYTHM UH, OF FIDDLING HAS ALWAYS BEEN, UH 283 00:14:16,266 --> 00:14:17,966 SORT OF A DANCE RHYTHM TO GET YOUR 284 00:14:18,066 --> 00:14:19,533 YOUR FEET AND YOUR BODY MOVING 285 00:14:19,633 --> 00:14:21,266 AND A GROUP OF PEOPLE MOVING TOGETHER 286 00:14:21,366 --> 00:14:24,500 SO UH, I THINK IT STILL HAS THAT AFFECT ON PEOPLE 287 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,166 AND UH, I, I DO PLAY FOR A LOT OF DANCES 288 00:14:27,266 --> 00:14:30,033 THAT'S ONE THING A FIDDLER CAN DO 289 00:14:30,133 --> 00:14:31,933 WHERE THEY DON'T GET TIRED OF LISTENING AT YOU 290 00:14:32,033 --> 00:14:33,533 IN FACT, THEY'LL WORK YOU TO DEATH 291 00:14:33,633 --> 00:14:36,266 YOU KNOW, MOST FIDDLERS SAY IT'S A PRETTY HARD JOB 292 00:14:36,366 --> 00:14:37,966 PLAYING FOR A DANCE 293 00:14:38,066 --> 00:14:45,300 ♪ ♪ 294 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,600 SOMETIMES PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THE OLD FIDDLERS 295 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:49,166 WERE JUST BACKWOODS PEOPLE 296 00:14:49,266 --> 00:14:51,133 AND OF COURSE A LOT OF THEM WERE 297 00:14:51,233 --> 00:14:53,800 SOME OF THEM HAD BIG OLD, ROUGH HANDS FROM FARMING 298 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:55,266 OR WORKING IN SAWMILLS 299 00:14:55,366 --> 00:14:57,000 BUT THEY COULD DO THE MOST DELICATE THINGS 300 00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:58,666 WITH THEIR FINGERS AND THEY BOW HANDS 301 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:01,933 BUT THERE WERE ALSO FIDDLERS LIKE CARLTON RAWLINGS 302 00:15:02,033 --> 00:15:03,533 WHO WORKED IN A BANK 303 00:15:03,633 --> 00:15:07,033 AND SOME WERE DOCTORS AND QUITE A FEW WERE BARBERS 304 00:15:07,133 --> 00:15:10,033 BARBERSHOPS SEEMED TO BE ONE OF THE FAVORITE GATHERING PLACES 305 00:15:10,133 --> 00:15:12,066 OF FIDDLERS IN THEIR LITTLE TOWNS AROUND KENTUCKY 306 00:15:12,166 --> 00:15:13,466 "SALLY GOODIN" 307 00:15:13,566 --> 00:15:23,533 ♪ ♪ 308 00:15:28,133 --> 00:15:31,066 GOOD FIDDLERS CAN MAKE A CHEAP FIDDLE SOUND GREAT 309 00:15:31,166 --> 00:15:32,500 BUT UH, IT'S JUST... 310 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,266 IT'S JUST FUN TO TRY THEM ALL OUT 311 00:15:34,366 --> 00:15:35,733 AND SEE WHAT THEY SOUND LIKE 312 00:15:35,833 --> 00:15:37,200 AND YOU KNOW, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU CAN FIND ONE 313 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:39,000 YOU JUST FALL IN LOVE WITH 314 00:15:39,100 --> 00:15:41,566 AND YOU GOT TO HAVE IT, BUT UH... 315 00:15:41,666 --> 00:15:43,000 AND ADD IT TO YOUR COLLECTION 316 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:45,633 BUT I'M NOT A COLLECTOR LIKE BILLY DON, HE... 317 00:15:45,733 --> 00:15:47,233 HE USED TO HAVE 200 FIDDLES 318 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:50,200 AND I THINK HE'S ONLY GOT ABOUT HALF THAT NOW 319 00:15:50,300 --> 00:16:00,333 ♪ ♪ 320 00:16:02,033 --> 00:16:02,700 THIS ONE IS... 321 00:16:03,333 --> 00:16:05,000 IS THE BIRD'S EYE 322 00:16:05,866 --> 00:16:07,933 FOR A, FOR A HOMEMADE FIDDLE 323 00:16:08,566 --> 00:16:10,666 ♪ ♪ 324 00:16:10,766 --> 00:16:12,500 IT'S GOT A PRETTY GOOD BALANCE 325 00:16:12,966 --> 00:16:16,333 ♪ ♪ 326 00:16:16,433 --> 00:16:17,633 ESPECIALLY THE BASS 327 00:16:18,466 --> 00:16:20,300 ♪ ♪ 328 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,300 IT'S BEAUTIFUL 329 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:31,366 ♪ ♪ 330 00:16:36,033 --> 00:16:46,000 ♪ ♪ 331 00:16:50,966 --> 00:17:01,000 ♪ ♪ 332 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:04,066 I'M JOHN HARROD AND WE'RE GOING TO PLAY YOU SOME 333 00:17:04,166 --> 00:17:06,400 SOME OF THE TUNES THAT COME FROM THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY 334 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:08,266 THE FIRST ONE WE'RE GOING TO DO IS MY FAVORITE 335 00:17:08,366 --> 00:17:10,233 AND IT'S CALLED "EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE" 336 00:17:10,966 --> 00:17:14,866 I THINK THAT WAS ONE THING THAT DISTINGUISHED, UH 337 00:17:14,966 --> 00:17:17,333 THESE, THESE FIDDLERS, ESPECIALLY 338 00:17:17,433 --> 00:17:21,233 IS THAT THEY, THEY KNEW THAT WHAT THEY WERE DOING 339 00:17:21,333 --> 00:17:22,633 WAS REALLY OLD 340 00:17:22,733 --> 00:17:23,966 AND THEY WERE PROUD OF IT 341 00:17:24,066 --> 00:17:26,966 AND THEY FELT A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY TO PASS IT ON 342 00:17:27,066 --> 00:17:29,666 AND SO THEY ALWAYS WELCOMED US 343 00:17:29,766 --> 00:17:31,300 AND THEY WERE GLAD THAT, THAT... 344 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,566 THEY WERE JUST THRILLED THAT PEOPLE LIKE US WERE INTERESTED 345 00:17:34,666 --> 00:17:38,000 NOT JUST IN RECORDING IT AND DOCUMENTING IT 346 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:39,500 BUT, BUT LEARNING IT 347 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,000 BACK WHEN GUS AND MARK AND I WERE MAKING OUR RECORDINGS 348 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:45,233 WE HOPED TODAY'S FIDDLERS WOULD LISTEN TO THIS OLD MUSIC 349 00:17:45,333 --> 00:17:48,100 IT WOULD BE LIKE GOING BACK TO THE PRIMARY SOURCES 350 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,066 WE HOPED LEARNING THE OLD TUNES 351 00:17:50,166 --> 00:17:52,533 MIGHT HELP TO UNSTANDARDIZE MODERN FIDDLING 352 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:55,800 I THINK TO SOME EXTENT, THAT'S HAPPENED 353 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:57,433 THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD NEW FIDDLERS 354 00:17:57,533 --> 00:18:00,166 THAT JUST DON'T SOUND LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE 355 00:18:00,266 --> 00:18:01,633 THEY'VE STUDIED THE OLD STUFF 356 00:18:02,666 --> 00:18:04,633 AND THEY, JUST LIKE THEIR INNOVATIVE 357 00:18:04,733 --> 00:18:07,100 AND IDIOSYNCRATIC PREDECESSORS 358 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,766 ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE HISTORY OF FIDDLING 359 00:18:08,866 --> 00:18:17,933 ♪ ♪ 360 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,566 JOHN'S WORK, WHICH HAS HELPED FURTHER THE RICH HISTORY OF FIDDLE TUNES 361 00:18:23,666 --> 00:18:25,633 IS NOW INCLUDED IN A BOOK 362 00:18:25,733 --> 00:18:27,766 OLD TIME KENTUCKY FIDDLE TUNES 363 00:18:27,866 --> 00:18:29,966 IS BY JEFF TODD TITAN 364 00:18:30,066 --> 00:18:32,366 AND PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY 365 00:18:33,133 --> 00:18:36,700 THE AUTHOR USED MANY RECORDINGS MADE BY JOHN AND HIS FRIENDS 366 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,066 AS SOURCE MATERIAL 367 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,366 THE TAPES THAT JOHN COLLECTED ARE NOW PRESERVED 368 00:18:41,466 --> 00:18:44,900 IN THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC ARCHIVES AT BEREA COLLEGE 369 00:18:45,966 --> 00:18:48,000 WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY 370 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:52,400 IF YOU SAW A CUTE, 1960s VINTAGE CONVERTIBLE 371 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:55,366 SUDDENLY ACCELERATE TOWARDS THE WATER'S EDGE 372 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,400 PROBABLY THAT IT'S DRIVER HAD LOST HIS MIND 373 00:18:58,500 --> 00:18:59,633 OR AT LEAST HIS WAY 374 00:19:00,366 --> 00:19:02,566 WELL, OWNERS OF AMPHICARS 375 00:19:02,666 --> 00:19:06,166 ARE A LITTLE CRAZY OVER THEIR AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES 376 00:19:06,266 --> 00:19:08,900 THEIR VINTAGE AUTOMOBILES BUILT IN GERMANY 377 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 BETWEEN 1961 AND 1968 378 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:16,033 THEY ARE THE ONLY CIVILIAN AMPHIBIOUS PASSENGER CAR 379 00:19:16,133 --> 00:19:17,933 EVER MASSED PRODUCED 380 00:19:18,033 --> 00:19:21,333 ONLY A LITTLE LESS THAN 4,000 WERE EVER BUILT 381 00:19:21,433 --> 00:19:25,166 IT'S ESTIMATED THERE ARE 500, MAYBE 1,000 LEFT TODAY 382 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 WELL, AS SUMMER TURNED TO FALL 383 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:31,200 REGIONAL AMPHICAR OWNERS GATHERED AT LAKE CUMBERLAND 384 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:33,133 AT LEE'S FORD MARINA 385 00:19:33,233 --> 00:19:34,766 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO TAKE A RIDE? 386 00:19:36,666 --> 00:19:44,066 (Music playing) 387 00:19:44,166 --> 00:19:45,933 IT'S EXCITING TO GO AMPHICARRING 388 00:19:46,033 --> 00:19:48,166 UH, IT ATTRACTS A CROWD NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE 389 00:19:48,266 --> 00:19:50,700 AND OFTEN TIMES YOU CAN READ THEIR LIPS OF ASTONISHMENT 390 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:51,600 WHEN YOU HIT THE WATER 391 00:19:52,733 --> 00:19:54,066 UH, DEPENDING AT WHAT SPEED YOU HIT THE WATER 392 00:19:54,166 --> 00:19:55,300 HOW BIG A SPLASH YOU MAKE 393 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,666 IT CAN BE VERY DRAMATIC 394 00:19:57,766 --> 00:20:07,133 (Music playing) 395 00:20:07,233 --> 00:20:09,433 GOING INTO THE WATER IS QUITE AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE 396 00:20:09,533 --> 00:20:12,033 YOU'RE DRIVING ALONG ON LAND, EVERYTHING SEEMS FINE 397 00:20:13,833 --> 00:20:15,600 YOU APPROACH A BOAT RAMP AND 398 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,766 JUST SLIDE RIGHT DOWN INTO THE WATER 399 00:20:17,866 --> 00:20:19,866 AND IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE... 400 00:20:19,966 --> 00:20:22,533 IT'S A LITTLE NERVE-RACKING THE FIRST TIME YOU GO IN 401 00:20:22,633 --> 00:20:25,033 BECAUSE IT'S LIKE WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON? 402 00:20:25,133 --> 00:20:28,700 BUT AS SOON AS YOU, YOU GET INTO THE WATER 403 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,466 YOU CAN JUST IMMEDIATELY FEEL WHEN THE CAR STARTS 404 00:20:31,566 --> 00:20:33,066 STARTS FLOATING 405 00:20:33,166 --> 00:20:36,466 AND YOU JUST PRESS THE GAS AND PULL AWAY AND IT'S... 406 00:20:36,566 --> 00:20:39,200 YOU JUST ARE COMPLETE... IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FEELING 407 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:40,566 YOU'RE OUT IN THE WATER 408 00:20:40,666 --> 00:20:41,600 IN A BOAT 409 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:51,666 (Music playing) 410 00:20:54,033 --> 00:20:56,366 YOU TOOL AROUND FOR A WHILE AND YOU GET READY TO COME OUT 411 00:20:56,466 --> 00:20:58,033 YOU HEAD RIGHT TOWARD THE BOAT RAMP 412 00:20:58,533 --> 00:21:02,633 AND AS YOU APPROACH THE RAMP, YOUR FRONT WHEELS PULL OUT 413 00:21:02,733 --> 00:21:04,966 UP ONTO THE RAMP UNTIL THE REAR WHEELS 414 00:21:05,066 --> 00:21:06,266 TOUCH THE RAMP 415 00:21:06,366 --> 00:21:08,166 AND THE WHEELS PULL YOU RIGHT ON OUT 416 00:21:08,266 --> 00:21:10,500 YOU PUT IT IN FIRST GEAR AND DRIVE RIGHT ON OUT AND 417 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,266 DRIVE AWAY 418 00:21:12,033 --> 00:21:13,600 WHEN YOU COME OUT OF THE WATER 419 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,500 YOU LITERALLY CAN DRIVE STRAIGHT DOWN THE ROAD 420 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,300 THE ONLY THING THAT YOU DO IS JUST DISENGAGE THE PROPELLERS 421 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,333 WHICH IS JUST ONE LITTLE SLIP OF A LEVER 422 00:21:22,133 --> 00:21:23,233 TURN THE PROPELLERS OFF 423 00:21:23,333 --> 00:21:25,533 AND YOU'RE OFF, YOU'RE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD 424 00:21:25,633 --> 00:21:29,966 (Music playing) 425 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:36,300 WELL, THE AMPHICAR WAS THE ONLY PRODUCTION VEHICLE MADE THAT'S 426 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,333 EQUALLY AT HOME ON LAND AS IT IS IN THE WATER 427 00:21:38,433 --> 00:21:39,866 IT...YOU KNOW, AT FIRST GLANCE 428 00:21:39,966 --> 00:21:41,933 IT LOOKS PRETTY MUCH LIKE A NORMAL CAR 429 00:21:42,033 --> 00:21:44,833 UNTIL YOU START WALKING AROUND AND YOU SEE TWO PROPELLERS 430 00:21:44,933 --> 00:21:47,233 ON THE, ON THE REAR END DOWN BELOW THE 431 00:21:47,333 --> 00:21:48,666 THE REAR BUMPER 432 00:21:48,766 --> 00:21:52,233 BUT UH, IT WAS A CAR THAT WAS MADE DURING THE '60s IN GERMANY 433 00:21:52,333 --> 00:21:54,200 FROM '61 TO 67 434 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:56,566 ABOUT 3,500 CARS WERE MADE 435 00:21:57,266 --> 00:21:59,833 MOST OF THOSE CARS CAME TO THE UNITED STATES 436 00:21:59,933 --> 00:22:03,633 THERE'S PROBABLY 500 OR 600 IN THE WORLD, STILL RUNNING 437 00:22:03,733 --> 00:22:06,633 IT'S GOT UH, A BACK SEAT 438 00:22:06,733 --> 00:22:09,100 SEATS FOUR PEOPLE RELATIVELY COMFORTABLY 439 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,633 IT'S A SMALL CAR 440 00:22:10,733 --> 00:22:13,700 AND ALL OF THE CARS MADE WERE CONVERTIBLES 441 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,066 IT HAS A, A SMALL FOUR CYLINDER, TRIUMPH ENGINE 442 00:22:17,166 --> 00:22:18,333 IN THE REAR 443 00:22:18,433 --> 00:22:21,333 AND IT'S A FOUR SPEED, MANUAL TRANSMISSION 444 00:22:21,566 --> 00:22:22,766 WHEN YOU'RE OUT IN THE WATER 445 00:22:22,866 --> 00:22:25,700 THE FRONT WHEELS ACT AS RUDDERS 446 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,800 AND STEER THE CAR 447 00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:29,266 LEFT AND RIGHT 448 00:22:29,366 --> 00:22:31,700 TOP SPEED IS ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT MILES AN HOUR ON THE WATER 449 00:22:32,333 --> 00:22:36,433 ON LAND, TOP SPEED WHEN THEY SOLD THE CARS, THEY SOLD THEM AS 450 00:22:36,533 --> 00:22:39,600 YOU KNOW, 70 MILES AN HOUR ON LAND AND... BUT UH 451 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:41,733 45 AND 50 IS A LITTLE MORE PLEASANT 452 00:22:43,633 --> 00:22:46,800 WELL, I'M A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL AMPHICAR OWNERS CLUB AND 453 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:50,000 ACTUALLY I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB, WE HAVE UH 454 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:51,933 OVER 320 MEMBERS 455 00:22:52,033 --> 00:22:53,300 ACROSS THE WORLD 456 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,933 UH, IT'S BASED RIGHT HERE IN KENTUCKY 457 00:22:56,033 --> 00:22:57,366 I'M FROM BURLINGTON, KENTUCKY 458 00:22:57,466 --> 00:22:58,966 WHICH IS IN BOONE COUNTY 459 00:22:59,066 --> 00:23:03,933 WE HAVE UH, REGIONAL EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE, THE COUNTRY 460 00:23:04,033 --> 00:23:05,833 THAT AMPHICARS GO TO 461 00:23:05,933 --> 00:23:08,866 AND OUR BIG NATIONAL EVENT THIS PAST JULY 462 00:23:08,966 --> 00:23:11,300 WE HAD 64 AMPHICARS FOR THE WEEK 463 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,133 THE WEEK-END LONG EVENT 464 00:23:13,233 --> 00:23:15,666 MOST AMPHICARS IN THE WORLD AT ONE PLACE 465 00:23:15,766 --> 00:23:17,600 OF THE EVENTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 466 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:19,033 ONE OF THE EVENTS WE HAD THIS YEAR 467 00:23:19,133 --> 00:23:22,000 HAPPENED TO BE IN SOMERSET, KENTUCKY AT LAKE CUMBERLAND 468 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:23,866 THE UH, SWIM-IN OR THE SPLASH-IN 469 00:23:23,966 --> 00:23:26,166 WE HAVE HAD IT AT LAKE CUMBERLAND 470 00:23:26,266 --> 00:23:28,266 WAS PART OF THE SUMMER NIGHT CRUISES 471 00:23:28,366 --> 00:23:30,100 WHICH IS A, AN EVENT THAT HAS DEVELOPED 472 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,166 IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS IN SOMERSET 473 00:23:32,266 --> 00:23:33,566 SOME LOCAL GENTLEMEN 474 00:23:33,666 --> 00:23:37,000 PUT TOGETHER A, A HOT-ROD AND CLASSIC CAR SHOW 475 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:40,766 AND IT HAS PULLED OVER 500 CARS ON A SATURDAY 476 00:23:40,866 --> 00:23:42,633 AND WE ARE FEATURING THE AMPHICAR SWIM-IN 477 00:23:42,733 --> 00:23:43,733 AS PART OF THE EVENTS 478 00:23:43,833 --> 00:23:47,900 (Music playing) 479 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:49,933 ONE OF THE UNIQUE FEATURES 480 00:23:50,033 --> 00:23:51,533 OF OWNING THE AMPHICAR ON LAKE CUMBERLAND 481 00:23:51,633 --> 00:23:53,700 IS THAT YOU HAVE THE EPITOME OF LUXURY 482 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,433 IN THAT YOU CAN DRIVE FROM YOUR HOME 483 00:23:55,533 --> 00:23:56,800 DIRECTLY TO THE LAKE 484 00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:59,566 DIRECTLY IN THE WATER AND PULL UP AND TIE UP TO YOUR HOUSEBOAT 485 00:24:05,166 --> 00:24:07,200 I USE THE AMPHICAR TO GET TO AND FROM WORK 486 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:09,233 WHEN WE TIE UP OUR BOAT IN THE COVE 487 00:24:09,333 --> 00:24:10,800 I WILL USE THE CAR TO COMMUTE 488 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:12,400 UH, AND SPEND THE NIGHT 489 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:13,600 AND THE NEXT MORNING, GET UP BRIGHT AND EARLY 490 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:14,866 AND DRIVE IN STRAIGHT TO WORK 491 00:24:14,966 --> 00:24:24,933 (Music playing) 492 00:24:29,966 --> 00:24:33,433 (Music playing) 493 00:24:34,133 --> 00:24:35,266 UH, I'VE OFTEN SAID 494 00:24:35,366 --> 00:24:36,633 IT'S NOT A GREAT BOAT IT'S NOT A GREAT CAR 495 00:24:36,733 --> 00:24:38,066 BUT IT'S A GREAT COMBINATION 496 00:24:38,166 --> 00:24:40,500 (Music playing) 497 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,266 PERSONALLY I THINK THAT 498 00:24:42,366 --> 00:24:44,600 THE AMPHICAR IS PROBABLY THE BEST CAR 499 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:46,100 THAT'S EVER BEEN MADE ON THE WATER 500 00:24:46,733 --> 00:24:49,233 AND IT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST BOATS EVER MADE ON LAND 501 00:24:49,333 --> 00:24:53,900 (Music playing) 502 00:24:54,733 --> 00:24:57,766 PRESIDING OVER AMPHICAR OWNERS THE WORLD OVER 503 00:24:57,866 --> 00:25:00,766 IS BURLINGTON, KENTUCKY'S MARC SCHLEMMER 504 00:25:00,866 --> 00:25:04,000 PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL AMPHICAR OWNERS CLUB 505 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:05,966 WHOM YOU'VE JUST MET 506 00:25:06,066 --> 00:25:09,833 THE CLUB HAS MEMBERS FROM THE EAST COAST TO CALIFORNIA 507 00:25:09,933 --> 00:25:10,900 AND IN GERMANY 508 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,433 THE AMPHICAR'S BIRTHPLACE 509 00:25:13,133 --> 00:25:16,233 MANY OF THE MEMBERS HAVE FUN REGISTERED LICENSE PLATES 510 00:25:16,333 --> 00:25:18,166 LIKE úI SWIM TOO' 511 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,833 AND GET A KICK OUT OF STARTLING PEOPLE 512 00:25:20,933 --> 00:25:22,433 WITH A PLUNGE INTO THE WATER 513 00:25:22,533 --> 00:25:23,733 I GOT TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE 514 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,200 WELL, THANKS FOR COMING ALONG ON THE BYWAYS AND WATERWAYS 515 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:29,900 OF "KENTUCKY LIFE" 516 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,500 YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE A HEALTHY INTEREST IN HISTORY 517 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,500 AND TRADITION WILL LEAD YOU 518 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,633 BUT YOU KNOW, IF KENTUCKIANS ARE INVOLVED 519 00:25:37,733 --> 00:25:40,733 IT'LL BE A JOURNEY YOU'LL WANT TO TAKE AGAIN AND AGAIN 520 00:25:41,366 --> 00:25:43,900 I'M DAVE SHUFFETT, ALONG WITH MY OLD DOG HERE 521 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,466 AND WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME 522 00:26:19,033 --> 00:26:20,466 [Closed captioning by the KET Caption Center] 523 00:26:20,566 --> 00:26:21,833 [was made possible by a grant] 524 00:26:21,933 --> 00:26:23,266 [from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels] 525 00:26:23,366 --> 00:26:25,166 [and in part by a grant from The Lexington Lions Club] 526 00:26:25,266 --> 00:26:26,533 [and a gift from the Lloyd E. 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