Anybody looking for an adventure October 17-19 in St. Louis, Missouri? Come learn to play the rhythm bones with an incredibly diverse group of bones players. ...
What do we know about African American finger picking banjo players from the 1880s until the 1920s and beyond? What kind of influence seems to have been held...
Scott Joplin dedicated "Cascades Rag" to "Kimball & Donovan, banjoists" but they look white to me. Horace Weston, the most famous African American black...
Hi to all. I am looking for a microphone for my banjo. Wich recommends to me? A contact microphone (that I can put inside the pot) is better? Thanks! Flor Flor...
There is a theater play called "Between the Ballad and the Blues", A small play about a early 20th Black string band. I'm lucky because they are coming to...
... banjoists" but they look [have you seen pictures of them] ... Lowell's article on Ragtime banjo talks about this. I will look that up when I get home. ...
... they ... near ... I will try to check that out when I get home. Myspace is blocked where I work. It sounds like whoever wrote this has little understanding...
Understanding Black minstrelsy as a 20th century phenomenum with a continuity into Blues, jazz, and other forms of Black popular entertainment has become one...
What is the name of this book of interviews? ... From: Tony <writerrad@...> Subject: [BlackBanjo] Another 20th Century Black minstrel: Muddy Waters To:...
A DRUM microphone--the kind that is used to clamp onto the bass drum of a rock-band drum kit works pretty good. I saw a clawhammer player using this and it...
-- On Fri, 10/3/08, Florencia Ruiz <floruiz75@...> wrote: [About microphone] I have seen numerous old-time clawhammer banjo players use "standard" Shure...
... The Voice of the Blues : Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine (Paperback) by Jim O'Neal Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 1, 2001) ...
I am still lucky that the few places I play out these days, I get good enough support from having a separate house mike for my banjo or guitar rather than...
My experience goes right along with Tony's assessment of mics and pickups. External microphones will sound much more "natural" than pickups or internal mics....
... I think I copied it from the Cadenza Magazin(??1910)] ... PURE WESTON, as STEWART (or employee) WAS TRANSCRIBING IT, and PUBLISHING IT, and STEWART HAD...
My apologies to anyone who received an "invitation" to something called Bebo. I did not send any invitations to anyone, nor am I even a member of this Bebo...
... Unlike myself, Mike never rambles on. He's always read here and other places with serious, reasoned, clear answers to problems from real experience. I...
... called ... member of ... sending ... archive My experience on the local folk music gigs list is that once one responds to these things, your email and...
Ha Ha ... very funny. ... but true. ... I think it was Bradbury who when asked if he could clawhammer, said at an ABF meeting "nah I don't play that N-...
... who when asked if he could ... banjo" A standing joke that ... through the front doors of a ... instrument to attract such lightning ... You can look back...
Now that I have a car with a CD player for the first time, I listen to Cannon over and over on my CD player. There are very few tunes of the 38 that he...
I wrote: However, despite this racism, real classic banjo players were forced to perform ragtime and even jazz as everyone in the popular music world had to...
you've hit on something I've been talking about for a while. Gus Cannon did the same thing that Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters did which is take the...
Dear Dom: Let me first say that your observations on this in the list previously have been a great aid to me in trying to figure out these things.? I have done...
Our friend Shlomo Petscoe has pointed out that distinctive to Cannon's style was a "stacco" thumb lead approach. He also pointed out that Gus Cannon's brushing...
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