[Ads-l] gut-box

[Jonathan Lighter]

1919 _San Antonio Light_ (Nov. 27) 6: I have lived in "Arkansas" for 40
years, and I also know something about old times.... They only had two
pieces of dance music in those days. One was called "A Dog in Difficulty"
and the other "Hell Among the Yearlings." They were both played on a
fiddle, or "gut-box" as we called it.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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