In Carolina, it's a tradition that if somebody's playing music, you help them out.
And the nearest available farmer would shake down all his neighbors
and say, hey, let's help these guys out.
And he'd take his hat off, go around, collect up a bunch of money.
We'd maybe get four or five dollars into somebody's hat,
fill up the gas tank, get a quart of milk and some crackers and head out.
We did that all summer of 1953.
They call that busking.
It's from the Spanish buscar, to search.