... for ... I shall view this based on the priorities I have in life. Seriously, as soon as I get home. At work they have Myspace blocked as a "sex site.:"...
... string ... other ... the ... Sorry, I have only had time to go on this list in the mornings lately. I have been a bit overwhelmed lately as I will write...
"Gospel holds a large share of the music market, individually outselling jazz, classical, Latin, new age, and metal." Just a fact I found in a scholarly...
... Yes! I have met associates and children of Blind Boy fuller sidemen who do nothing but Gospel. They still held Fuller's memory in their highest regard. ...
I've never heard of Bland being associated with invention of the fifth string before. I'm reading "Spreading Rhythm Around" and they claim that Bland, called...
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/audiodir.html "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" started its life in 1879 as a minstrel parody of a spiritual sung by the Fisk...
... There have been a couple of discussions over the past few years, including one just a few months ago, about Golden Slippers. A search through the archives...
The idea of "invention of the fifth string" is basically an ignorance of the banjo. We know that before banjos started to be standardized in the minstrel era,...
... Hey Wild Bill, Who are the Fuller sidemen, and who are their children? This would be new information for Gaile Welker, currently the foremost researcher on...
I am well familiar with both songs/melodies and have never considered them to be related in the least. Both survived and continue to survive, independent of...
This is a good example of the importance of making musical decisions about music, as opposed to scholarly, or even common sense ones. Much that is dubious,...
True, what is printed and quoted is not necessarily true and generally I defer to persons such as Curt and Kerry, and having listened only to the intro to the...
I, also, was deferring to Kerry since I do not know the Fisk version. The point being that we need to test - with our ears - any alleged similarity. The whole...
... Hey Wild Bill, Who are the Fuller sidemen, and who are their children? This would be new information for Gaile Welker, currently the foremost researcher on...
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... Subject: [BlackBanjo] Digest Number 963 Date: Thursday 02 November 2006 09:11 From: BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com To: BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com There are 4...
... store > bought strings. Obviously, it was much louder than its predecessor. ... IAC that is the sense in which Sweeney 'invented' the 5 string. It was ...
Our knowledge of the four-string banjo and folk banjos is added to by the persistance of indigenous banjo traditions in the West Indies (By indigenous, I mean...
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We've long seen part of our function as making known other resources on the web to Black banjoists and those interested in the genre. Banjohangout is a very...
Carolina Chocolate Drops challenge musical stereotypes By: Susan Budig Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Originally posted 11/8/2006 Trio leads revival of the Black...
Following Rufus Kasey"s thump, we have the percussion in this harmonica version of Lost John on the Digital Library of the Appalachian. The drumming (or foot...
<<Concurrent to the show, a feature documentary, Black String Revival, by local filmmaker John Whitehead, will be filmed.>> What happened to Whitehead's...
... playing) ... I inadvertently left out the url http://www.aca-dla.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php? CISOROOT=/WarrenWilson&CISOPTR=451&REC=1 They include Walter and...
There is a tour going around that combines 3 Africans, with about 4 African backup people and 3 Americans. "ACOUSTIC AFRICA" One soloist is one of the finest...
And for a West Coast view of the 5-string banjo.....with no mention of Black Banjo.....thought everyone could use some silliness now and then.... Matt _Carole...
Judging from the excerpt below, Carol must have based her "banjo demise" theory solely on seeing one of my shows (except for the "foot-stomping" part, which I...
