Are people too caught up in the election to worry about really important things, such as obsessing about all things banjo? I just thought I'd start a new...
In a message dated 11/1/2004 4:55:41 PM Central Standard Time, kevintcommins@... writes: Red Wing Wow! A tune in common between 4 & 5 stringers! Ginny...
Quoting kevintcommins <snip> ... Dink Robert's "Roustabout" and "Jump Jim Crow". Daunting to try to get both the instrumental and vocal parts working together...
Hey! What words do you have there for "Jump Jim Crow?" I"ve got my own version of that 'un... I"m working on "Corrina", "Thank You Falattinme Be Mice Elf...
Sule, as luck would have it I am just this minute in the middle of and having fun annotating tunes for Cece's and my volume 2 of "Black Banjo Songsters",...
... Red Wing actually is pretty much the same as a tune written by Schubert that is part of the classical violin repertoire. In my rather brief surveys of four...
Although I am proud to be a presidential elector for Roger Calero, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for President, I think the general squabble between...
Halloween night my wife took the kids out to trick-and-treat and I stayed home to give out the sugar (no, I am not working for the ADA). I needed something...
The modal tuning is a spooky one. (I've got H Bosch in my head now. I can just see that hat!). Shady Grove is a spooky sounding tune. Which puts me in mind of...
Quoting Tony" <writerrad@...> ... Tony, ask me again in a few weeks after I have spent more time noodling around with Rufus Kasey, Dink Roberts and Josh...
Quouting Ulf, <snip> It really was the "folk revival" and ... Hard to say; I suppose the situation is different there, but my first thought would be to try to...
Why not send me a copy of the tape? I could help figure out what they're saying... Thanks, regardless. Gotta go vote! SGW ... Sule Greg Wilson, M.A. ...
Tony, The info you passed on about 4-strings in string bands was interesting to me. Thanks! In my head I think of plectrums as having had some long ...
... just ... I'll get out the tripod and don the topper, pose with my Buckbee, and post the pic at some point. ... bunch of ... ago. This was ... that...
... Kerry this brings up a question, unrelated (no doubt) to Old Sage Friends. In Sugar in the Gourd, there's the line "I went down to my sedge field". I've ...
Africa is a BIGGG Place. Ulf. Have you ever made a map of the instrument/music location? -- sort of like National Geographic maps. Hmmm ... do you suppose...
Now that I have pulled my head out from much work at turning my state from one color to another ... I need a synopsis. What have you all been talking about...
Joan Dickerson asked ... Since Tuesday I've been giving Carriacou serious consideration. One gas station, 200 rum shops and a very lively quadrille tradition ...
Fiddlinshim@... has writ" ... I've ... on ... I doubt I can shed any light at all on this Joel, sorry. I've never heard the term "sedge" used in any Sugar...
Are most on this this list already familiar with Mento Music? If not, here's a lovely site to explore, including some history and some discussion of banjo...
Hey, Kerry! Is that Prouty any relation to the Clark Prouty in Lanham, MD? I'd guess "sage" as in wise man...... But, hey; I'm the poetry teacher.. SGW On T ...
"Sedge" was pronounced as "sage" in Knott County, Kentucky. A particular type of grass used for making brooms was known as "broom sage." This type of grass...
I went to the CD to get more info: The CD is called "Mark O'Connor and the New Nashville Cats". The song is actually called "The Ballad of Sally Anne" (John...
And also in rural Pennsylvania where I lived for a while as a kid. We always played ball in a "broom sage" or "sage grass" field that was burned each year to...
... Me either. I've not heard of a sedge field either. That's why I asked the question. Gus Meade sang 'sedge field' when he sang Sugar in the Gourd. Joel...
... MD? ... If you are speaking of Clarke Prouty, who used to live in Maryland and I think worked for NASA (and happened to build banjos and make replicas of ...
... not, ... discussion of ... Yes we've had several mentions of Mento music as a source for banjo playing since the first weeks of this group. This is a...
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