Pat Ford performing Anglo-American songs,
December, 1938

Sound recordings: In English.

Manuscripts: In English.

Comprises a group of field materials documenting Pat Ford singing and performing Anglo-American songs on the harmonica on December 25 and 27, 1938, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Boomtown [Central Valley], Shasta County, California.

Recordings:

December 25:
Keith and Hiles Line

December 27:
Ida Red
The Keyhole in the door
The Soldier's sweetheart (sung with Warde Ford)
Jack Donohue
The Dark-eyed sailor
River drivers' song
Sterling's Hotel
Foreman Monroe
The Little brown bulls
Shamus O'Brien
Paddy got drunk on fish and potatoes
Shamus O'Brien
The Drunken Frenchman
Swedish fiddle tune from Wisconsin woods
Soldier's joy
Devil's dream
Comments on recordings made at Shasta Dam during the 1938 Christmas holidays

The Dark-eyed sailor
Jack Donohue
Foreman Monroe
Keith and Hiles line
The Keyhole in the door
The Little brown bulls
River drivers' song
Sterling's Hotel

Pat Ford is the brother of Warde and Bogue Ford. They came together to California from northern Wisconsin to work on the Shasta Dam during the 1930s.

For other recordings and other materials documenting sessions of Pat Ford making music with his brothers Warde and Bogue Ford, see: Warde, Pat, and Bogue Ford performing Anglo-American songs, September 3, 1939

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