Hi Everyone, I wish to inform that I will be leaving for Gambia on thursday, the 5th of july, to visit my family and to inform to the Senegambian committee the...
... Tony, you need to be more careful than you were in these snippets from a recent post in talking about the "high pitch" of the five-string banjo in making...
In an earlier message I posted today I unthinkingly retained the subject-line thread name, "Re: The Stupidities of Tony," of the message I was replying to....
Any research on tap-dancing banjo players? Think I saw that at least once. Have you?--B2 ... like," "tambourine," "jawbone," ... list, ... I am afraid I have...
Bob is right in every case. I had been up all night attending to the birth of a child by my companion's god daught, a quite amazing thing to see. They waited...
... least once. Have you?--B2 It is a priviledge to have someone who is a survivor of slavery who actually saw tap dancing during its reign. I never saw any...
... message ... that ... I too ... rebukes ... knowledgeable ... Stupidities are made more frequently by the hasty and brash who cant wait to think things out...
The string tone of a bass would have been inaudible on early mechanical recording equipment, but I bet the slap would have been audible... and annoying without...
... enough ... heard ... recording ... 5-string "cello banjo"'s were being made in the 1890's, as the bass voice in banjo orchestras of the time. They were...
... mechanical ... audible... and ... had ... actually ... were ... orchestra ... reports ... contrary ... introduction of the ... recording ... below ... on ...
[Editor's Note: Last week,the American Rose Society honoredDeFord Bailey, an early star of the Grand Ole Opry. Below isa story published in _The Tennessean_....
This is just one kind of start on some of the questions raised on the list about early jazz banjo. Have some other thoughts/leads to post, but they'll have...
hello all, I've moved out of lurk mode to jump in here I'm doing a band with David Pleasant http://www.davidpleasant1.com/ who is Fulbright scholar and...
... who's speciality is Gullah ... American and Gullah music ... him and my own ... body itself as a percussion ... percussionists were/ ... different parts of...
This is a portion of the article I have long been working on that I thought we all would like to hear. The Ebony Hillbillies were not the first African...
Thanks Kerry: I am a big Clarence Tross fan. It would be important to see if this was different from the material that Roddy Moore collected from Clarence...
Re: [BlackBanjo] Re: Why? Fading of the Banjo in Black Culture ... Culture ... and ... maybe ... was ... Andy is here writing about the American Folk Blues...
Where is everybody. Can anyone send me the link to the place on the Smithsonian Folkways web site where they have all the liner notes for download in PBS. Or ...
Note to track 2, Tie Your Dog Sally "Will Adam, fiddle. At his home in Kagar, part of Kensington MD, probably late 1953." I can get to the scanner later if...
... probably late 1953." ... is everybody. ... Folkways ... Or ... section of ... the ... No Paul if I can cred it to liner notes Close to Home that is ...
... "Tie Your Dog Sally Gal" "At his home in Kengar..." Mike Seeger later recounted to me his visit to Kengar relatively recently and was asking locals if any...
... ============= if you add all the different instruments of percussion added together on this list, you get a different total 128 mentions of percussion,...
... ============= "The Macintosh County Shouters, whom I saw perform at the 1972 National Folk Festival, used the baldheaded end of a broom to keep time with,...
Correct me if I'm wrong, as I am confident you will, but: I think one key in separating African and European drum traditions is that the main information in...
Hello, Bruno. That's kinda right. Both the low-end and the high-end voices "speak", or solo. Something high is there to cut through and hold the time, true. ...
How's this for synchronicity? Here's a question from the Jugband list: "There was a recent thread, which I just can't find, about some sort of broom-handle...
Sounds like a ceremonial version of an ordinary broomstick. Reminds me of a thing Ive heard referred to as a 'Lagerphone,' crossed sticks festooned with...
