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Dear Andy and Dear BBG: I am going through the archives trying to find information on topics for my next article, and now and then writing repsonses to some of...
Call for Submissions Peer-Reviewed Online Journal FIAR / Forum for Inter-American Research (Universität Bielefeld) Issue 3: Music and Globalization (Spring...
From an Interview with T-B"one Walker here: http://www.blues.co.nz/dig-this/documents/TBW1947.pdf I just naturally started to play music. My whole family...
One and all PLEASE do not neglect the post regarding "Call for Papers" please investigate this. Make inquiries about it! Present your idea in an informal...
Hi All, Deb and Allen visited Clif in the VA hospital in Seattle yesterday and he is not doing well at all, in fact, his doctors give him about two weeks. He...
Is there a way to send cards, flowers, CDs to listen to? ... and he is not doing well at all, in fact, his doctors give him about two weeks. He was treated...
1)He has everything he needs. 2)The 2 week estimate is heresay. 3)If people want to think and pray about C.E. that is there business. He would probably dig...
Eric, Give your dad my best wishes. I'm glad I met him. Paul ... From: Eric <blackmetalbanjos@...> Subject: [BlackBanjo] Re: Clif Ervin seriously ill ...
To all at Black Banjo, How sad I am to hear of Clifton's Illness. I was privileged and honored to have a chance to share the stage with him last February...
Yes Laura, I echo your thoughts. It was indeed a sad day to learn of his illness. Hopefully there's still a chance he'll pull through; doctors have been...
Just about everyone on this list knows that bone rattling can energize a tune in a way that delights your audience and makes them take notice. The Harlem...
Dear Scott, There are a couple of people you should be there, but can't: one is the chiropractor, Doc Schwimmer, who does four tongue depressors in each hand. ...
Great hearing from you, Andy. Talked with Clif on the phone last January about offering his products at my online bones store. Well, actually we talked about ...
I just spent a completely productive weekend visiting with Bob Winans. Greg Adams came over a couple times as well. Some of this thinking is a product of...
Following the idea of my previous post up, I have been listening to the cylinder records of ragtime Ossman and other classic banjoists did of Ragtime and the...
Yes Tony, I see where you are going. I don't think Ossman or the other "so called" ragtime banjo players are particularly ragtimy. Now Charlie Poole fits the...
Due to the paucity of recordings featuring African-American folk banjoists, perhaps some of this research might consider comparative studies with early...
... of > ragtime rhythm and the foundation of bluegrass banjo playing of which ... retooling to go from guitar to banjo and vice ... minstrel ... come ... ...
... such > as Henry Thomas or Pink Anderson? I also wonder if there is any> evidence suggesting that some of the early songsters initially played> the banjo...
... Apparently, you tried to past in graphics, but this system removes such things. Please post information. Perhaps there is a place on the web where the...
I began a new photo section call "Prison String Bands". I found a photo of a Black String Band in North Carolina. I'm going to pick it up as I type. I couldn't...
... My Dear Berimbau, This is one of the issues that my Thumb ('The Hands of Blues Guitarists') study would naturally address, had I only taken the time to...
Thats right, sorry! You can see the photo in: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=381735174&albumID=854842&imageID=10394969...
Eric, Not needed or wanted, maybe. But, as memorials are for the living, please allow me to express my personal regrets. I liked the man the one time I met...
Robert Stuart Jamieson, inventor, scholar, banjo player and researcher, and dear friend, died Sunday morning surrounded by his family. He was an inspiration to...
Eric, I agree with Andy. I've always thought very highly of your father. It makes me sick to think you wrote out his obituary that way. Nevertheless,...
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