Carolina Quotes
And then I dream a lot of my chords. I played at the World’s Fair. And when I hear music constantly I don’t sleep what you would say real sound. I can hear different chords, and I got up a quarter to three, went out on the porch. Slipped my sister’s guitar out from under her bed and went out there all alone. And I put the chords together. It reminds me of a crossword puzzle. Every little piece that fit, I’d put it in.
Etta Baker Carolinian
Source
Recorded at the Bluebird Blues Festival, Largo, Maryland, September 19, 1993
- form
- interview
- work
- Bluebird Blues Festival
- year
- 1993
Cite this record
“And then I dream a lot of my chords. I played at the World’s…” Etta Baker. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-EDE55F4278. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/ede55f4278
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