antedating (?) "Katy, bar the door" (1890)

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:26 PM -0400 10/4/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
>I don't know. I merely assumed, as your quote notes. I further assume
>that the determination of "more marked" v. "less marked" takes far
>more experience than I have, i.e. for all practical purposes, none
>whatsoever, since I avoid eye-dialect BE as written by whites on GP
>and, WRT eye-dialect WE, Erskine Caldwell, MacKinlay Kantor, and Manly
>Wade Wellman are about as far as I care to go, though I enjoy hearing
>all Southern and Southern-based dialects, whether white or black,
>especially the drawled and r-less varieties, spoken or sung. If you
>haven't heard "Finger-Poppin' Time" done by the the black Midnighters
>and the cover by the white Stanley Brothers, you're missing a treat,
>if for no other reason than the stylistic contrast between the two
>versions.
>
>FWIW, I've paid money to hear the Stanleys in person.
>
>-Wilson

Not too recently, I trust, given that (while Ralph is still going
strong) Carter died 40 years ago, which had deleterious consequences
on his crosspicking technique...

LH

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