Pat Nightingale interviewed by Rob Willis in Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2678965
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Nightingale, Pat, 1910-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1996 Jun. 29
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 92 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Pat Nightingale talks about life in outback Australia, sings and plays the guitar.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Conversation: Nightingale speaks of his early life in Mt. Morgan, relocating to Sydney at age 14, his job at Arnotts eventually getting a job in the bush, his family background, working life in 1926 in Central West NSW, his relocation to the Northern Territory in 1928, taking his wife and baby over the Blue Mountains in a horse-drawn cart, living on the road, taking a job digging a grave, working as a rouseabout in a shearing shed, his accident while riding, work during World War II and the state organisation of manpower, rabbit trapping at Euabalong, trapping eagles, work as a shearers' cook and as a saddler, how his wife developed agoraphobia and later died of food poisoning, his first interest in the guitar, learning slide guitar 1936-37, demonstrates steel guitar style, playing in a steel guitar band, playing at dances, the musical skills of his brother Jack, busking in Sydney, playing in a choral society with Chips Rafferty, playing on the radio, touring around N.S.W., playing acoustic guitar
- 2. Folsom Prison Blues
- 3. On the road again
- 4. Drovers' Dream
- 5. Recitations (short poems)
- 6. The cat came back
- 7. Click go the shears
- 8. Conversation: buying his Richenbacher guitar from Palings, playing electric steel guitar and its tuning.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with John Harpley.
- Recorded on June 29, 1996 at Rockhampton, Qld.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-205829839
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- Publication date:
- 1996
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