The week before last, the annual banjo collectors gathering met in Williamsburg Virginia. While the meeting was smaller than usual-- many people I know...
Hello everyone I just got an e-mail from my friend, Vic Lukas and he regretfully informed me that Odetta had passed away. Here is his message to me: DoM: I...
... This is from a while back, just wanted to respond: Tony, You may well be right in this. FWIW, Lomax thought the same thing. I am convinced that Lead...
"Mule in the Alley" appears to be a funny story about catching mules.Since I know a little about mules, born on an eastern North Carolina farm."To the east my...
Greetings. I'm a new member and would like to introduce myself. I'm a banjo player and an ethnomusicologist, and I teach at Illinois State University, where I...
Does anyone here know of Black string players (i.e. banjo, dobro, mandolin, etc, etc.)in Mississippi, especially around the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan...
Ferrell, I passed your query on to a friend of mine from Jackson, Sherman Lee Dillon. He has been playing jukes there for thirty years, so I figure he might...
Bill--that's the kinda inside stuff I crave. That's what makes the stuff REAL--because it's the meaning that it had At the Time, for THE PEople.... More! SGW ...
First on Mules. see <<http://launch.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/photos/view/d1bd ?b=10>> I am old enough to have seen a mule or two on Mississippi...
Read Cantwell's _Bluegrass Breakdown__ the book's main thesis is that Bluegrass is a form of African derived music like the Blues and Jazz and Ragtime and...
Omissions One of my former hangouts when I used to fly about the Mountain west was the White Mule Bar on Colfax in Denver which folks say is still growing...
I'm getting ready for my wife's job's Christmas Party, so, to get in the spirit, I decide to (finally!) digitize "Christmas Jollies" by the Salsoul Orchestra,...
Let's Dance as if the Whole World were Present!!! The New York New Year's African Dance Celebration! New Year's Eve African Party (December 31st , 11pm-4am) ...
http://www.thebanjoproject.org/ 9 minute trailer. What a fabulous summary of The Banjo. Lots of playing of every type accompanied by a distiillation of what...
Thanks for that, Joan! Can't wait to see the whole show! Keep me up to speed as to when the doc is finished and is ready to air! Ely ... [Non-text portions...
This is in part a spin off from the thread about the Marc Fields movie, as it began in discussion I had with Chris Albertson and Marc Fields about Cannon. Very...
... music. I wrote ... When I got back to Marc with this information, he pointed out that Chris A. had written the liner notes for the Gary Davis CD I was ...
... Dear Tony, Bushwa. Davis used his thumb and forefinger to pick, like most everybody else, and all of his movies show this. Is he thinking of the left...
... I was fortunate to see Gary Davis once, when we hired him to play at my college folk festival in the late 1960s. Thumb and forefinger. Period. Just as Andy...
... was ... everybody ... hand? ... Thanks, I read that somewhere else and that is what I got from Chris and Marc fields. That is why I said I thought you...
... This is what I have maintained all along, that the T-1 metehod of playing is a retention of African and African American technique, passed on to their ...
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hi here's a tune I wrote dediated to the great afican singer who recently died here in Italy after a concert against mafia and camorra, hope you enjoy... ...
There is little evidence for systematic use of two fingers by any but a ... African ... Perhaps this is a typo, but my recent experience of observing African ...
... Duh. I mistyped. I meant to say, to put it plainly, that only a very few guitar players or banjo players up to the end of WW II and beyond, used more than...
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... You're not wrong, IMHO. I have thought for years that Piedmont guitar playing, based as it is on an alternating thumb and more distinctly melodic use of...
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