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Rescue workers are continuing to pump water from the flooded cave deputy prime minister probably $1.00 to $1.00 told reporters that the boys are being taught to swim and dive and that they would be taken out quickly if the water levels inside drop sufficiently officials are now dismissing the idea of leaving the boys in the cave until the rainy season is over and the water subsides for n.p.r. News I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai California firefighters are making significant progress containing an enormous wildfire about 90 miles north of San Francisco the county fire is now 25 percent contained up from 5 percent yesterday from member station k.q.e.d. Leslie Moore Clark has this update the fire has scorched about 82000 acres since Saturday the flames are threatening about 1000 structures the fire is primarily moving through rural areas mostly canyons and ranch lands a change in the weather is finally making it easier to contain the spread is real pain's own is with Cal Fire so the weather right now we're no longer in triple digits the communities have increased the winds are not as high however the blaze is moving through vast areas of steep inaccessible to rain that is challenging firefighters and the wildfire could get bigger this weekend drier hotter temperatures are in the forecast and the winds are. Addicted to pick up again the county fire is unusually large for this early in the season officials say this could be California's worst fire season on record for n.p.r. News I'm Leslie McLaren The Trump administration is rescinding Obama era guidance meant to promote diversity among students the Departments of Justice and Education retracting documents that encourage schools to consider race as a factor for admissions Attorney General Jeff Sessions calls the efforts of changes an effort to restore the rule of law some universities say they intend to continue their diversity efforts the memo on race conscious admissions aimed at colleges or among 24 policy documents remote revoked by the current administration this is n.p.r. . Security is tight at major Independence Day celebrations including the annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular one of the country's largest and oldest public 4th of July events as an insurer and one Mecca for member station w.b. You are in Boston reports boson's fireworks show attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the City Police Commissioner Bill Evans says there is no credible threat to the 4th of July festivities though with the large crowds there is increased security you know the undercovers have eyes in and then we have a good visible presence as well as you'll see a lot of you know bomb assets and technicians and everything else and that's just as you approach when you come onto the Esplanade that's where you know the state would do bake checks spectators are banned from having backpacks alcohol grills fireworks and weapons for n.p.r. News I'm seen in jar and will Mecca in Boston another annual 4th of July tradition is the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in New York City and once again Joey Chestnut is the champion the 34 year old from San Jose California ate his way to an 11th when Intel's e.s.p.n. He was hoping to do better $74.00 all right Blue Man I heard it and out it was there were $35.00 but it's only worth I'm happy just not a 2 more hot dogs and buns than he did last year he devise a reason warnings are in effect through the ceiling in the Midwest and East Coast some pictures are soaring above 90 degrees in many areas with heat indices of well over 100. I'm Laurie London n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from the Conrad n. Hilton Foundation working to improve the lives of disadvantage and vulnerable people throughout the world learn more at Hilton Foundation dot org and the listeners of k.q.e.d. Well here in the Bay Area we most certainly do not have a heat advisory and in fact in fact it's quite cool today 63 degrees is the high temperature expected in San Francisco today 68 in Santa foul if you're headed to the Marine county fair maybe where parka. Should at least 72 degrees in Santa Rosa that's the high today 67 in Oakland and 77 in San Jose tomorrow those temperatures are going to increase quite a bit we're going to get a jump with the warming trend beginning tomorrow and then by Friday and Saturday should be quite warm with temperatures in the ninety's in the illin areas 6 and a half minutes past one this is Fresh Air I'm Terry Gross on this 4th of July we're going to hear some great American music we're going deep in our archives for the show to feature Doc Watson who was one of America's most revered folk musicians in his prime he was considered the finest black picker in the u.s. Folklorist Ralph Rinzler who discovered him said Watson is single handedly responsible for the extraordinary increase in acoustic flat picking and finger picking guitar performance his flat picking style has no precedent in earlier country music Watson was born in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains when he was about one year old and I infection left him blind for about 15 years he toured and performed with his son Merle in 1905 Merrill was killed in a tractor accident Watson organized an annual music festival in his honor in North Carolina known as Merle Fest. Doc Watson died in 2012 at the age of 89 we're going to hear the interview I recorded with Doc Watson in 1988 but we'll start with a couple of songs from the concert he recorded on our show in 1909 he brought with him guitarist Jack Lawrence who was his longtime music partner I want to welcome both of you to fresh air and Doc Watson can I ask you to introduce the 1st song I think it's very I think we'll do one that Merle and I misnomer and I learned from John Hurt the good old to go make me down a pallet on new floor. Down That's Doc Watson singing and playing guitar along with guitarist Jack Lawrence recorded in our studio in 1909 we'll hear more of this fresh air concert later the year before that concert Watson joined us for an interview we talk 1st about how being blind affected his life I've read you say that if you were inclined you don't think you would have ever gone on the road and I wasn't sure how to interpret that I wouldn't have because the exactly what I was talking about I would rather have a job where I could go home and not out of play music of course there's no doubt about that because I think you're born with music or whatever talent that comes outfront in your blood as the old timers used to say and you just couldn't have that pick 1st time a guitar came along you'd learn it. But it would have been a hobby I'd like to be in a carpenter or an electrician or some kind of work like an mechanic if I could say I can do rough carpenter work in a way it didn't your father make the 1st banjo that you yeah he did that was another summer of 1934. And I had my. First little string instrument I had a harmonica before that. But dad showed me a few of the old time filing our claw hammer banjo style tunes and when they brought it to him and put it in my hands and said Son I want you to learn to play this thing real well to me that will get you a better one he said my head to get through the world and what was it like for you the 1st time you got the banjo into your hands what did you do with it. Don't you know I really don't remember remember how I felt but I don't remember what it was like learning the 1st scene that was kind of hard for Dad to show me because I couldn't see his hands and it was a little tough but he finally got across to me. How to do the licks on the banjo and how to note the thing in Africa figure out where the notes work as it was fretless and you could slide along with the fingers in a funny you come to the right one you know and found out how to get there without mission. So you were really pretty self-taught for the most part yes I was a guitar absolutely I was self-taught How did you get your 1st guitar my pull in the crosscuts one spring my dad told my youngest brother and I Boys if you could all those dead chestnut. Small digestions down along the road and around the edge of the field there you can sell it for pulpwood to the tannery and we went out and we cut a couple of big truckloads and didn't make us a mint of money but it made me enough to buy a good little guitar from well I thought it was good at the time from Sears Roebuck and I younger brother ordered him a suit of clothes. Considering that you really instruments were homemade banjos and a mail order guitar Did you ever get really obsessed with the quality of instruments that you were playing some musicians just play what they haven't others get really obsessed with having instruments that are just right for them or custom made for them I was fairly contented with what I had I never had had my hands on a good guitar. Back in those days and didn't for years the 1st good guitar that I got hold of that I would have considered much better than my older box was. Martin guitar that Richard Green used to have a music store under his he had a boarding house run in there and. And I went in there one day with a little mail order thing and he said one of you let me help you get you a good guitar and I said Gosh it cost too much use of they walk and do I can get you good Martin do you thing that will be a price that you can afford and I'll take the payments down to $5.00 a month and I couldn't beat that I paid it off quicker than that but I couldn't beat that with a stick and at that time I was playing at the little fruit stand and a couple of little being market that hadn't been making me a few shekels on Saturday had a good time to pick and then I paid for the guitar that summer he got me that thing at his cost and it cost $90.00 and I paid for a lot I was proud of that guitar but in all truth compared to my guitar and I was like fretting a fence. It was really hard to play. I guess it's almost good in a way to get used to something like bags that make things so much easier when you get a good guitar Oh it really does and when I got into the folk revival in the sixty's run into people who could set a guitar action up to where you could play it and I came on to another Martin along about that time played a Gibson 1st on the road borrowed then it came into another Martin and that action was brought down to where you could play it we're listening to the interview that Doc Watson recorded in our studio in 1988 we'll continue our July 4th edition with more of our Doc Watson interview and performance after a break this is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air On this July 4th we've gone into our archive for some great American music we're featuring an interview with and performance by the late Doc Watson who was a reviewer at folk and bluegrass guitarist and singer Let's get back to our 988 interview . It was really during the folk revival that you started to become nationally known I think you've been playing dances and you know playing played right here and use it through the fifty's and played an electric guitar Les Paul was it this really interest me you were playing rockabilly an electric guitar and ultimately you know pop standards with no one in Jack Williams Jack had a little group together and when he heard me pick he said but it don't you take with me. Nowhere understand that real friends lawyer who was working at the Smithsonian Institute came down looking for traditional Southern musicians came down your way and heard about you had looking for Clarence Ashley and found him parents Tom Ashley and I had played music with Tom on a few land sales a few little shows shows here and there. And raff came over and when he heard me he persuaded me or my better judgment at the time that I had something to offer in the way of entertainment in the folk revival so I jumped in there with both hands I reckon thinking well if I fail at it it will mean I didn't try though. I'm here and Ralph was a member of the green Bible was at the time now you have been playing you know electric guitar did you have to switch over to stick in order to make it on the folk revival Yes Which back to the acoustic Oh yeah he had a lot if you took an electric guitar on the way some of those festivals they would have booed you off the stage if you were supposed to be they call used to call me ethnic until I found out on you a few other teams but other than they'll hand me downs you know the ballads of the good old teams that I cut my teeth on thing I really shocks some people in some of the clubs when I got my foot in the rafters Now when you get your foot in the door you can expand out and play a little of the other music that you played over the years but stick strictly to traditional music to get away I think stuff to get started so that's what I did I kind of deceived people a little you know. Well I want to play something that was recorded by real friends where I mean Ruffins a recorded a you were present in my living room in my living room yeah and this is a recording it was from the early 1960 s. And this is every day dirt tell us a little bit about the song differently has a fellow David macaron. Was living in a mill town guest on in North Carolina and he heard about some recording sessions going on I think it was Knoxville Tennessee and he probably slung is guitar over his back knowing how those poor boys fared he and a fellow Howard I forgot his given name went over to Knoxville and recorded a bunch of things and every day there was one of the songs that happen in our little record collection when I was a little boy and those words are just you know they're automatic I didn't have to think about the lyrics on that I did have to work at picking it. I learned it off the rails and that record McLaurin recorded. In the early 1960 s. This is my guest Doc Watson. Saying. Be. You could in the early 1960 s. As my guest of Latin How did you learn how to pick that way when we found out your self taught but it seems like you'd be really hard to teach yourself an intricate style world all by listening to the all records you could hear if you got. Familiar with the instrument you could hear was drawings they were hitting on and what chord they were playing in just by the sound after all music is sound. And I think if anybody learns the guitar proper version as soon as they can get to where they can stop looking at the neck and play with the on that unless it's something real. I heard that your. You 1st get into you know you need to memorize the distances and the jumps on the neck well. As I said music is sound and I could tell what the guy was doing the little slide licks on there where he goes down to a certain note and jumps back up there all the chords are silent and he's like you're reading something once I was familiar with the guitar once you put down the electric guitar for the acoustic guitar How often did you pick up the electric guitar again. Very seldom after I got into to folk music and into the revival and began to play a little jobs or coffee houses I don't I seldom if ever picked up the electric guitar do you miss that at all no not I love a good electric guitar that one wasn't all that good it was a 2nd Actually it was a Les Paul Gibson but it really was a 2nd the neck on it when I like it I thought it was a great thing when I 1st got hold of it had a beautiful sound. But there are some that are so much better now than it was. Sound wise you know and as to play that I picked up a Chet Atkins model electric Gibson the day beautiful How about it oh lord now I was interested in anything. Doc Watson recorded in 1908 he died in 2012 at the age of 89 we'll hear more of his interview and his 1909 fresh air concert in the 2nd half of our show as we continue this July 4th edition Here's another song from that concert I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air like to do. A little tune here that I used to hear Rooney and Sonny do. It's a blues that everybody's had one time another. It's called Stranger blues. 23. 3. Boom. Boom. Yes I must bring your. Boat where in your. Hand just may call them a stranger you don't have to don't. Rebel sometimes don't want to watch. 3 history. Sometimes I wonder why some people treat is 3 years old. And found a place to stay. I just go over to. Where I am a stranger here. Lol. Yes them a stranger here. You are tired. And just may call them a stranger. 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Let's get back to the concert he recorded in our studio in 1909 he was backed by guitarist Jack Lawrence. When the late Jimmy Rogers. Did his license in the early thirty's he did to music that sat right in the age of the big band music that they were used for little he'll Jim recorded called Blue Jay. Play Project. And. Listen here Jane and have come to say farewell Oh sweet heart you know all I love you so much more than those words to that I must go away did they. Want to come with me cause I'm going to be Blues missing you. Have a great day for you. Jane. And here you are the sweetest thing. I love you so. Mine Blue Jays. And when the sun goes down. From the Shadows creeping over town please meet me in the. Mind of Blue Jay z. . And when the song goes not. In the shadows grieving old for a time. Then come home to you. Mind blue. That's guitarist and singer Doc Watson and guitarist Jack Lawrence recorded in our studio in 1909 as you can hear we've gone deep into our archives for this July 4th edition of our show let's get back to our in 1088 interview with Doc Watson once you went on the road during the folk revival now you weren't used to traveling there must've been a lot you learned how to learn how to do did you have a business manager to help you out with bookings and Ralph friends or did. The bookings between he and many Greenhill of folklore productions but raff traveled a lot with me and if he didn't when I would go to New York to work in the city. I came by Trailways bus someone would always meet me at the Port Authority and take me over to RAF's apartment I worked lots of times I'd worked at Gator's Folk City a week or 2 weeks at a time doing either opening act are just playing the job straight there. It was scary I was as green as a green apple as far as the city country boy really Yeah sure there's old timers used to say for sure. But. The scary part finally and the adventure finally got over with and the road when it became a job yeah I do think they're using a good audience I love. You know I think there's always clubs who not maybe not many but there's always some clubs willing to take advantage of of a former And I would guess that someone who was blind was a more likely target if they didn't have people who were watching out for them would you ever ever have any problems with I was sure was glad when my son Merle started on the road with me because if we went to a place and they didn't treat me too good dad we won't come back here in a more and that was the end of it I tell Manny tell Mr Greenhill don't don't look at more it was the end of it. We you know we didn't hit too many places that they weren't really decent but once in a great while or course I'm calling you names because we're all nationwide radio. But we were in a few places where they treated you like pieces of used equipment and that was the end of playing there was the do it again that's the best thing you can do you know it's not tolerate that just move away you mentioned your son Merle did you teach him how to play guitar no Merle it didn't show any interest in the guitar until it was 15 and I was on my 1st concert tours a little solo concert tour that spring and about middle ways of it rough called me and said Doc I've got some good news now so it will land on me and he said. Merrill has started playing the guitar his mother Rosalee started him on the guitar she told him his 1st chord showed him how to play them and a little bit about time and he just took it and went with it and we met John Hurt for the 1st time that same summer we went to the back with folk festival and role played backup guitar for him he had only been playing the 3 months and if played back up guitar on the stage and we met when we met John Hurt Merrill was in thrall by John's finger style on the guitar. And he took that and added a few little notions of his own and that's where Merrill's. Picking style thinker style came from he never felt that he had to work hard to differentiate his style from your stone or Merrill. He once in a while to ask Miss for some pointers on a melody a song or something that Merle played his very own thing on the guitar I don't think he even ever asked me how to hold a piccy probably looked at the way I held it but I never really sat down and told him how you get this note or that note I just played a song and signing it and he jumped in there and learn the lead to it like summertime for instance. I had heard a version of that and I said Row Well you think about learning this and I played the thing about halfway through and he said Gosh on its own I could be hard and so help me in 5 minutes he could play the lead to it. And when we did the recording I'll say this that and then we move on when we did the recording. The producer Jack Quinn It came running through and said Boys don't touch it it was the 1st take he says that that was the way it should be and Meryl said well it was spontaneous and he said Dad I'll have to go back memorize what I did those things happen in the studio a lot of time you know after you learn a song you'll hear notes that you just reach far in there and you play things that you hadn't played before and I knows of a lot of musicians that they meet all these people have memorized their legs and they have no idea what they played. And they were just being spontaneous and everybody else doesn't memorize it when when your son died was it hard for you to go back on the road afterwards. If you'll pardon a little intimacy here I'll tell you something that happened our wouldn't have. Between the time he was killed and his funeral I dreamed I was in a dark desert and it was so hot you couldn't breathe. In the sand was pulling the down like if you were in quicksand and the big strong hand reach back and said Come on Dad you can make it and he brought me led me out to where it was cool that there was a cool sunny but there was a cool breeze and I walked up and I thought well I'll try and I took up the last job on that particular tour that we've cancelled. And my friend Jack Lawrence have been working some all morals off the road with us for quite a while and Jack's they don't as the other guitarist. Kind of glad I did if I had stayed off the road a month on our way to come back it was so hard you know you well know you couldn't know Terry but it was really hard to go back out there without him I guess a dream kind of gave you permission in a way it was only it was a godsend I think was we're listening to our 988 interview with Doc Watson we'll hear more of the interview and more of his 1989 fresh air concert after a break this is Fresh Air. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the Annenberg Foundation committed to supporting educating and in gauging communities in the United States and globally for more than 25 years learn more at Annenberg Foundation dot org. And from the candy to fund supporting individual dignity and sustainable communities through investments in transformative leaders and ideas learn more it k e n d e d a fund dot org. This is Fresh Air On this July 4th We're listening back to our recordings with the revered folk and bluegrass guitarist and singer the late Doc Watson let's get back to our 988 interview with him you know we've been I've been using the word virtuoso today and I would guess that one of the problems of being a virtuous is that people want to hear you play fast all the time to hear you really you know do the most difficult stuff that you can do it well yeah a lot of people do get into that but usually. If you have a big audience you can't really take requests from the. When you're on stage so you just. Program your set and you season it with enough of that to keep the people who have the flashy things satisfied. And kind of do a sensible set. I don't mind that people like to hear the flight they can in those give you a boost to get a lot of holes and whistles and screams from the audience you know that. I love the good solid music too. And most of the audience do really they. Are. When it comes right down to they like to hear you the whole scope of the thing . Being being accused of being a virtue also doesn't bother me as bad as people try to put me on a pedestal especially when they're my own I know what you mean by putting on about as well they act like you're a god or something you know Lord I'm just people like everybody else I do play the guitar but I had to work awful hard I had to learn what I know can I ask you a question that I hope you don't mind me asking and if you do don't answer. A lot of performers who are blind wear dark glasses when they perform that's something you've never done I don't know why I always hated used to had good did a lot of perception done by the now because most of it's gone but the reflection off sunglasses you know had to come in on the sides I guess and I can now I won't but boy he's trying to get me the why don't reckon I didn't like the way I was a. Lot of people say oh as an advisor hated them I wouldn't and I just never have worn them I don't know if the blind that. Wear them their eyes look really abnormal or was it and I don't know I never did care why I'm just didn't do it right no particular reason except what it tells you that one last thing you know there's a really nice recording from the early sixty's of you and your wife singing together does she still sing do everything together she doesn't saying anymore playing him or the tragedy. Of losing Merle Terry has just about done her she does the office work there at home and she's not Rosalie any more of us are a little hard she had I don't know sometimes I just want to cry and you know especially when I'm away from around when I think about it I try not to try to encourage or what I can it's a tough it's been tough on her and she can't seem to get over the loss the grief really has or yeah I can understand. But. Well I regret we're out of time I want to thank you so much for coming for talking with us about music and thank you very much and I hope you have a good continuing year on the road I guarantee it's been a pleasure Doc Watson recorded in 1988 Here's 2 more songs from the concert he recorded on our show with guitarist Jack Lawrence in 1909 yeah I think a little train song might be in order here on a member that's a song over there that brother Jimmy jet wrote and I'm going to plug an album right here is supposed to do this but it's on an album of that for sure he'll call right in the midnight train a bluegrass album my 1st endeavor on pure bluegrass remold Trussell is a song for the train buffs that the good old steam engine sounds and all that good . I remember when I went to school at all the other 3 went by over 20 minutes on average and this song makes me think of those days. she'd room bowl over the lawn door the sun cert at the close of a. Month was a good stunt son used to. Not many trains go by. Hard times across this land and we know we're all real road. And the Greenville trust not alone seems to ha. No the Greenville troll so no I don't seem so. Featuring a live concert today with Doc Watson and Jack Lawrence and it looks like we'll have time for one were so. While we're at it there that is really pretty good list doing a little bit of something quite country here kind of wandered down. By blues when we play anything it's good rhythm. Guitarist and singer Doc Watson along with guitarist Jack Lawrence recorded in our studio in 1909 Doc Watson died in 2012 at the age of 89 so today we did something we don't typically do which is to go way back in our archive for a holiday show we have some great interviews and performances from many years ago that we'd love to share with you on holidays let us know what you think of that idea you can tweet us at n.p.r. Fresh air that's all one word after we take a short break rock critic Ken Tucker will review new recordings he likes to listen to with the volume up this is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air Sometimes you just want to crank up the volume and play a piece of music real loud and that's what Ken Tucker wants to deal when he listens to the recently released songs he's going to review songs from 3 different genres rock punk and funk Here's his review of music by My Morning Jacket Jim James the Danish band Ice Age and George Clinton's parliament. Please. Please. Please. Jim James is best known as the front man for My Morning Jacket but he's also released a string of solo albums of which uniform distortion is the 3rd one it is overall a collection of intentionally rough loud songs backed by an efficient 2 man rhythm section there's an emphasis on James's guitar which has a ragged sometimes blaring sound in a recent interview James said I wanted to make a record that's fun and quick and wrong and as he says on this song Rock on now. A. The actions of the me and. The. Game. Keep. Just. In a. Good . George Clinton the long time king of funk with his bands parliament and Funkadelic is back with the 1st parliament album in 38 years it's called Medicaid fraud dog a clever concept album Clinton uses his advanced age he's 77 years old as a springboard for songs both silly and serious about government aid programs the opioid crisis and the healing power of funk music all of that combines to form Clinton's pronouncement on the health of the country as he calls it one nation under sedation. The album's 1st single features a fine lurching rhythm dense guitar keyboard drum grooves and Clinton's gravelly voice singing the title which is I'm going to make you sick of me. Ice Age is a Danish band from Copenhagen the band started out close to a decade ago heavily influenced by $970.00 s. Punk rock now more albums into their career they've expanded their sound to include horns and take in a more grand gothic tone on their new collection titled Beyond last. The key to their pleasure is that the quartet keeps its song structures tight and never neglects to include a refrain that hooks you into hanging on for the next tremulous or angry verse. The new music from all 3 of these acts seeks release in letting loose in the pleasure music can give from creating wild and archaic spaces within the framework of pop music song structures there's an art to summoning up chaos and an equal reward in keeping that chaos under control Ken Tucker is critic at large for Yahoo t.v. Tomorrow on fresh air we take a look back at the Supreme Court term with New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak Well talk about important decisions that didn't get much attention as well as those that did and will talk about Justice Kennedy's retirement the pack reported that the president and his allies certainly encouraged Kennedy to retire with enough time to appoint a new justice before the midterm elections I hope you'll join us. 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