The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Howard Armstrong

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Howard Armstrong

4/12/2003

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2003.077

Painter and country and blues musician Howard Armstrong (1909 - 2003 ) was one of the world's greatest fiddle players. Armstrong played a total of twenty-two instruments and was fluent in seven languages. Two PBS documentary films were made about Armstrong including, "Louie Bluie." Armstrong was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/12/2003, in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 07m 15s

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Armstrong, Howard, 1909-2003

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Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong was born on March 4, 1909, in Dayton, Tennessee, to Daisy and Thomas Armstrong. Armstrong's great-grandfather was a slave owner, and his grandparents were slaves. His father, a gifted musician, artist and preacher, worked as a furnace man at the LaFollette Iron and Coal Company in eastern Tennessee to support his wife and nine children. He taught his children to play a variety of musical instruments, and Armstrong learned to play the mandolin, fiddle and guitar, am...