Urban Pioneers interview with Wally Bryner, November 13, 2009 (Part 1)

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Wally Bryner, November 13, 2009 (Part 1)
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Wally Bryner, part 1
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9704
Creator Bryner, Wally; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2009-11-13
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage November 13, 2009
Description Recording of an interview by Polly Stewart with Wally Bryner, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Jennifer Bott [now Bateman] served as sound engineer. Transcript by Laura R. Marcus [now Green]. One of the interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project, 2004-2011
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject Bryner, Wally--Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Wally Bryner; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Background in folk music/playing folk music while serving in the army; 2. Learning to play bluegrass banjo/bluegrass music as proselytizing tool on LDS mission in Germany; 3. Learning banjo solos from listening to records; 4. Beginning medical school/playing with friends in a band/starting to sing folk music/building own banjo; 5. Becoming a member of the Stormy Mountain Boys/learning to play bass and sing/Stormy Mountain Boys history; 6. Stormy Mountain Boys recordings over the years; 7. Longevity and special dynamic of the Stormy Mountain Boys; 8. Bluegrass masters like Doyle Lawson and Earl Scruggs training younger musicians in their bands, perpetuating the tradition; 9. Concern for the preservation of traditional bluegrass music/changes and innovation in musical styles and recording aesthetics; 10. Talking about Stormy Mountain Boys bass player Tim Morrison
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 27 minutes, 8 seconds
Language eng
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Is Part of The 30 interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project
ARK ark:/87278/s6p84wrm
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716362
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p84wrm