... Florida ... I have nothing to add to the volumes of knowledge about stereotypes that greater students of the culture can provide. However, for those who...
... Welcome to the land of the imperfect but stubborn (at least in my case) <G>! eg: Just this last week I emailed Dan Levenson, author of "Clawhammer From ...
You know, people make the mistake that because he's a shy sounding, slow talking old North Carolina boy, that he's not too sharp, but I've heard many quotable...
... slow talking old North Carolina boy, that he's not too sharp, but I've heard many quotable things come out of quiet Mr. Scruggs. I wish they would show...
In a message dated 5/2/2004 11:48:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com writes: In addition, I think he has long has Louise or Lester there...
I just look at the photo of the black banjoist infront of a tent (in Florida?) Is that the photo where the guy doesn't know how to play??? His fingere look...
I have received a welcome reception with my banjo playing, in the black community. But I dress rather dressy, with glittering crystal ear rings, necklace and...
Great reasoning! But...don't let them get away with changing names! You let 'em change the name, they think they can forget the history that made the names....
... Well, it's hardly a response to your post, after all, but it seems appropriate somehow. I do a lot of street music, and I have a fair number of black folks...
... Forgive me for sounding like Massa. I also give the same lecture-demonstration to white folks who stop. I find it (the idea of the music's having grown out...
Tony, I'm Chris, and this is the first time I've posted to this group. Dock Boggs does a version of Reuben's Train, found on disk two of the sessions he did in...
... the sessions he did in the 60s with Mike Seeger, released on Smithsonian Folkways. He uses a pretty esoteric tuning (to me anyway), and his version only...
Hey, Folks. Scott Didlake pointed this out to me. Boggs is tuning his banjo, bottom to top, and says, "one, two, three, five, four".....indicating that, in...
... I tend to believe that in matters of dress in performance that the tendency of the folk revivalists and their descendants tends to be something at odds...
Well, I wrote on the same subject in response to Dr. Dickerson. I have tended to try to look more respectable as time goes on. Sometimes I really think I...
... Yeah I gave up on the crystal a long time ago but I'll bet that JD decked out Classic Victorian would be something to see and worth a pic! Don't you think?...
... There's a commonly met-with picture of Charlie Bowman and (I think) the Hillbillies wearing overalls. There are others, too, although you're right about ...
I totally agree about African Americans having influence on hillbilly music. I had that gut feeling ever since I was little. Myra ... stop and ... talking...
I tend to think that much that is deeper and just not said lays with this question. I know from linguistic studies that very much of Southernism in speech has...
" that much more of the fiddling tradition probably belongs to African Americans than is currently acknowledged." I think this is particulary true of...
... Well, there is the famous story of Narmour and Smith telling the people who had recorded them that they ought to go listen to their friend, John Hurt, ...
. Though I > would disagree witth Tony on one thing I think their are parts of the > Appalachians, though not unexposed to black music forms, which evidence a...
It is truly banjo diversity at its widest for the Europe band! I posted a picture of James Reese Europe's famous Clef Club Orchestra taken sometime between...
A young black man was intrigued when he saw me with a banjo this past Sunday. He said that although he know that the banjo was started out in Africa, he said...
