on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1aaXarn_xE This is from a masters project shot by Mark Burda in 1989 or '90 (production date is 1992) at the Old...
I invite you both to join the Yahoo Group Black Banjo Then and Now which discusses the overall heritage of African American banjo, fiddle, percussion and...
Hey; I can give reference to another North Carolina person: Elizabeth Cotten, who sings, "Shoot that Buffalo" on the "Shake Sugaree" album. All the way from...
Hey Sule, If you don't count the fact that I'm broke (what else is new?) and that my car is falling apart (what else is new?), I'm doing great. That electric ...
Andy's post brings up some other possibilities. White fiddler Lowe Stokes, from north Georgia, played a piece called "Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the...
Since I have gotten back involved in OTM about 10 years ago, I've been asking questions about cellos and bowed basses whenever I could in fiddle lists, banjo...
I own that CD, too...but had forgotten that it had a cello and bass, probably because you can barely hear anything of the music- it was made from 78s not in...
-Ironically you can hear the bass better on the 1914 cuts-1 thru4. I was put off by the music at first but it grows on you. I have a very high definition...
I always figured that tubas and 4-string banjos were handier for many of the early jazz groups that sometimes had to perform as marching bands. Try that with a...
... many ... Parade bands in New Orleans and other places were quite different from Jazz bands. People in the parade bands became parts of Jazz bands. News...
Tony - thanks for all the references! I have been researching the history of brass bands for quite a while but did not find much about Black circus bands in...
Although I joined some time ago my schedule has not allowed me to be more active in discussions until now. i simply made time. I perform solo acoustic...
In both volumes Abbott and Seroff cover very much informatioin, an entire universe, that was not there before they published. Most usefully much of their work...
Very much thanks to Tony and Sule for the info on "Ragged but Right" and "Out of Sight" - I know both of those books will be worth further deep exploration! ...
The problem is that these books are huge tomes, and the only true way to get more than a skim is to take off a year of your life and go through them slowly...
Hi! This is to introduce myself. My name is Wayne Hendrick and I live in northeast Wisconsin. I have been interested in black music since high school (many...
Two of those "cross referencing things" are: Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 and Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot,...
Lost Sounds: Blacks & the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 is more about the history of the recording industry and of the narrow profile of African...
What kind of banjo playing do you do in the jug band. It seems most jug bands and blues bands a larger category that jug bands used played four-string tenor...
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I was given a Banjo by a woman 15 years ago. She was 65 years old and died 2 weeks before she retired. The Banjo belonged to her father who was in his 80;s. ...
... More appropriate places to raise this query are http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BANJOCOM/ a group that contains some of the top buyers and sellers and...
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