The array of web sites out of the cigar box movement is extremely interesting and educational. I also went back to listening to the live 65 station. My...
... Thompson, ... Your web site is a real gem that I need your posts like this to remind me to regularly visit. However, if there is any way to break long ...
Tomi-O is quite a character and an excellent builder. My favorite instrument of his is a nine foot tall upright bass with 9 cigar boxes glued (or maybe bolted)...
... I used to write and post to the net such things. However, I got quite involved in technical writing in the early 1980s and learned how the eye gets...
You write: "I build instruments similar to the Tomi-O you linked to, except I add a high banjo-like drone, to give away at my shows. My design was very much...
I've been researching, making and playing the African-American one string zither for 25 years now. The instrument has many different names in the Southern US...
No, I only give them away at my shows. I decided that the giveaway is a stronger statement if that's the only way you can get one (of mine). ... -- ...
... I agree with that... although lute shaped cigar box instruments predate the blues by a few decades. I've seen instruments that were made in the 19th...
I've been researching, making and playing the African-American one string zither for 25 years now. The instrument has many different names in the Southern US...
Hey Doc! Yeah, I know this picture and you won't get an argument from me on the relative antiquity of cigar box resonated monochord fiddles or lutes. I would...
... Hey, don't forget Florida! The Diddly-Bow and its masters have been featured in the past at the Florida Folk Festival; Moses Williams, one of those...
That was a set called "Drop On Down in Florida" and had lots of neat juke joint music, plus the man who played the door, one string, with a bottleneck slide. I...
... and ... predate > the blues by a few decades. I've seen instruments that were made in the > 19th century and a print exists from about the Civil War era...
... parts of ... been featured in the past at the Florida Folk Festival; Moses Williams, one of those masters, for instance, was also featured on a 2 LP set of...
Hey Hilary! Actually, Moses Williams was from Itta Bena, MS., where he learned to make and play his distinctive monochord zither. His hometown is in the heart...
See my new updated review of Recapturing the banjo for some commentary on why the non-traditional focus of the CD represents an an advance for the five string...
... learned > to make and play his distinctive monochord zither. His hometown is in > the heart of the Delta, not too far from where B.B. King relates > making...
I am looking for someone to jam with in Chicago.I have recorded a banjo song called "Blues on the Banjo" on Electro-Fi and would like to do more. Can anyone...
Does Anybody (Especially West Virginia Kerry Blech) know anything about the band Williamson Brothers & Curry who play a version of John Henry they call "Gonna...
Tony.....found this review on the Venerable Music web site......a research/interview opportunity for someone....unless Kerry or Bob have already been to ...
"Like the work of Freeny’s Barn Dance Band, the Williamson Brothers and Curry, the West Virginia Mountaineers, and other white groups, the recordings and ...
Tha have a taste for folk guitar music prior to 1940 ..Reve gry Davis ...Son House ...Bill Bronzy Ext....JUst looking to see Who is out there and has an...
Gail is making me a copy of the whole article. Should be interesting. TT ... Brothers and ... the recordings and ... Stovepipe No. ... interactions of ... ...
Hey Lil Roostaa, I'm not from Savannah but I am from that area, Charleston, SC. I now live in Birmingham, AL. My Grandfather is from Savannah. My mother's...
