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Yes, That very Reed Martin of Cabin John. He played on my first CD, My Friend is a Mule in the Mines, on Dark Holler. It is still available at a few Internet...
Okay! I hunted down Reed when I worked at the Smithsonian, too. His wife grew up not far from where I did in DC....guess that should be the other way around,...
... There some pretty fine looking gourd banjos in those class photos. In photo 3 there is a lady in the front row who has a 4 string (3 long, 1 short) that...
Hey y'all, I'm Eric Ervin from Everett, WA. Resprenting black banjoists way out here in the Pacific Northwest. Can you hear me from way out here? Should I type...
Black Metal man! I learned bones from my dad! I'm not too far...Tempe, AZ.. Great to hear from y'all. You frm Seattle? SGW www.drumpath.net ... <image.tiff>...
Nope. Not from Seattle. I'm from Everett. I live in Seattle now but I consider myself a long term guest. Just a migrant laborer down here. Why it matters is...
Anyone else seen the movie Afropunk - The Rock & Roll N****r Experience (http://www.afropunk.com/)? Everything they say in that movie about black peoples'...
We would stay at his house when playing gigs in the DC area. He is one intense guy. I woke up one morning with him holding an ornate Washburn guitar that was...
... There is now a cropped version in the Club members picture section made by your HIGH AND SUBLIME AND SUPREME VIZHIER MONARCH AND CHIEF FACTOTUM ... ...
... post ... We have a link to pete's great web site under the gourd banjo section of the links area. His site has lots of nice visualizations of banjo...
Totally. I don't own any Venom right now but I "grew up" on that stuff. Since you are near DC (uh I think), you know what I am saying when I say that I usually...
Yes, the Bad Brains, absolutely, the memory of my first Bad Brains show is always lurking in my preconscious, such a formative moment. I grew up in the DC...
Yo! Raisin! I'll be a little closer to you come the end of June to mid-July. I'm in Mendocino Co, CA, working at Camp AVARY...6/23-7/10. It's still WAAAAy...
For anyone who doesn't know, that track is on: Black Fiddlers 1929 - c.1970 Document Records DOCD-5631 Where did I put that CD? *sigh* I need to get an ipod to...
I just want to get some of that syncopation that is in his playing. John Snipes has it too. It always gets my body going in 4 different directions every time I...
Ya. My dad got a call from some guy out in Signal Mountain, Tennessee about a bones gathering. I offered to send him down there but he wasn't too hip to go. My...
I emailed the photo of the classic banjo players -- you can tell from their right and left hand positions as well as their clothes (but I don't know how the...
I uploaded two images of African American musicians, one a 19th century classic minstrel line with fiddle banjo bones and drums, and the other a fiddle/ banjo...
In a message dated 6/2/2004 10:28:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com writes: You know that Mike Seeger has a whole tape of Lucius Smith?...
We is heavy Well we start asking or posing even by our (i.e. my) sloppiness and ignorance and get them answered. How about starting to think about a gathering....
lew stern says he'll scan and post the damned article. i'm snail- mailing the damned article to him tomorrow. best, eric ... Times. ... section, we aim...
I'm going to the Banjo Collector's Gathering in Wllliamsburg in Nov. Me & Rex Ellis all up in the porridge.... SGW ... <image.tiff> ... <image.tiff>...
[this is the message of the beast. spooky.] I think the west side black banjo connection will be meeting up this fall or winter. I won't be going to ALA. I was...
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