HI dear friends I'm just back from three wonderful days in Marrakech-Marocco where (i did not expect at all) I found a lot of banjo player in the streets! So I...
... I shall regret to my dying day that I didn't have my camera in the Djema al-Fnaa in Marrakech, on the day that we encountered a man playing home-made ...
I think tha that djema al fnaa is one of the most magic place in the world: incredible athmosfere, sounds, colors, smells and flavours... so amazing I wanted...
Thanks so much, Paolo, for your report on your encounter banjo playing in Morocco and the links to YouTube videos showing the same. Here's the link to a great...
I have been going through our archives for information for a research article I am doing. It seems every time I come across a contribution from Shlomo, even...
I am so glad to have Chris Smith among us, especially right at a time when I doing some writing about Gus Cannon. David Evans who with Chris wrote a piece on...
My research on Gus Cannon may provide some answers to what I just asked, but to me there are more questions Gus Cannon seems to be the only African American...
... This post is just to crave listmembers' patience; I am chasing three deadlines! When time perimts, I would be happy to upload the article to the files...
. Can anyone upload files, or do they have to go via the ... Any member can upload files and photographs and add links to our links section, but of course, the...
... to the ... with ... if it's ... Can someone on the list who belongs to prewar blues post the link to this file on the prewar blues group's site and save...
This is a crosspost from H-Net's Southern History list. We are aware of the superb research Seroff and Abbot have done based largely on the files of one...
From Roots & Rhythm's new list <http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/New_Releases/latest_020409.htm>. It seems to have its drawbacks, but... Chris VARIOUS...
Hello, everyone. How are you doing these days? This is Sule Greg Wilson. I'm writing to officially inform you that Mars Hill College will be hosting...
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Sule, Hi. I'm the guy you've been chatting a bit with on myspace, and I write the Casket Shroud and Grave blog. I'd love to talk to you a bit about this...
I think it is quite possible that some of Gus Cannon's banjo Joe recordings were flat picked, including "Jonestown Blues," "Can You Blame the Colored Man,"...
... There was a nice bg band from western NC, The Toe River Valley Boys. Oscar "Red" Wilson was the fiddler, and the banjo player was Clarence Greene, son of ...
Hope this isn't too far off topic ... Today I found an old favorite album on Amazon. I'd purchased the vinyl when it was first released then ten years or so...
It is one thing to listen to a recording a bunch of times and try to figure out things and find things impossible to do one way and decide it is done another...
Hello Friends, Suwannee Banjo Camp still has room for some additional old-time, African roots, and bluegrass students. We also have a few slots for fiddlers. ...
I have a wonderful bowed gourd banjo built for me by Jeff Menzies for sale on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120380070300 check out...
... Just to clarify, Menzies describes this instrument as an upright gourd bass. Jeff also makes a gourd fiddle. Pete Ross can do that too. When I can play...
I have posted in the Links section under "Web Pages of Members" a website I recently created (and will be expanding). It is a repository of articles and other...
Hi Tony, Actually, the upright gourd bass is a completely different instrument. Look carefully on Jeff's website - both instruments are pictured - and you'll...
... repository ... One of the things I have done over the past three or four months is reread all of Bob's articles I can get my hands on. I found a lot of ...
In his article on his web site Bob mentions a problem that came out in discussing resonators on a jug band site> Bob writes correctly: "Although the resonator...
... repository ... Really appreciated the review of ERic Lott's book which I had read before. His deconstructionist approach was quite the thing when I was in...
Well, maybe...but those horns were really loud. My plectrum (both of them actually) use pie pan resonators, so you'd never be able to tell from the front....
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