... 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.:"...
9744
Tony
writerrad
Nov 1, 2006 1:02 pm
... 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...
9745
Tony
writerrad
Nov 1, 2006 2:24 pm
"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...
9746
roanokeneck
Nov 1, 2006 3:28 pm
... 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. ...
9747
Sule Greg Wilson
suleness
Nov 1, 2006 3:38 pm
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...
9748
roanokeneck
Nov 1, 2006 4:09 pm
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...
9749
Tony
writerrad
Nov 1, 2006 4:47 pm
... 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...
9750
Tony
writerrad
Nov 1, 2006 4:51 pm
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,...
9751
Larkin
rivnrev
Nov 1, 2006 5:12 pm
... 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...
9752
kerryblech@...
kerry_blech
Nov 1, 2006 6:28 pm
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...
9753
Curt Bouterse
ccbouterse
Nov 2, 2006 2:21 pm
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,...
9754
roanokeneck
Nov 2, 2006 9:27 pm
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...
9755
Curt Bouterse
ccbouterse
Nov 3, 2006 4:19 am
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...
9756
Andy
rivnrev
Nov 3, 2006 5:44 pm
... 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...
9757
roanokeneck
Nov 3, 2006 11:20 pm
Andy, I am in the process of contacting Gail Welker. bill j ... sidemen who ... highest ... be new ... Fuller's ... late Dora ... from the ... undoubtedly go...
9758
David Raleigh Arnold
dave1mb
Nov 4, 2006 3:39 am
... Subject: [BlackBanjo] Digest Number 963 Date: Thursday 02 November 2006 09:11 From: BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com To: BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com There are 4...
9759
Tony
writerrad
Nov 7, 2006 4:31 pm
... 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 ...
9760
Tony
writerrad
Nov 7, 2006 4:54 pm
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...
9761
Tony
writerrad
Nov 7, 2006 5:14 pm
... to ... Indies ... gourd, ... claim ... died ... 1860s ... Scholars ... American ... as ... at ... playing. ... knowledge ... Another addendum is that since...
9762
Tony
writerrad
Nov 7, 2006 5:49 pm
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...
9763
Don Talley
mushcreek59
Nov 9, 2006 2:25 pm
Carolina Chocolate Drops challenge musical stereotypes By: Susan Budig Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Originally posted 11/8/2006 Trio leads revival of the Black...
9764
Tony
writerrad
Nov 9, 2006 7:05 pm
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...
9765
Tony
writerrad
Nov 9, 2006 7:06 pm
<<Concurrent to the show, a feature documentary, Black String Revival, by local filmmaker John Whitehead, will be filmed.>> What happened to Whitehead's...
9766
Tony
writerrad
Nov 9, 2006 7:53 pm
... 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...
9767
Joan Dickerson
jpdickerson2001
Nov 11, 2006 3:50 pm
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...
9768
Paul Tyler
drdosido69
Nov 11, 2006 9:43 pm
Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance Just ran across the title. It sounds interesting. Paul...
9769
Tony Thomas
blackbanjotony
Nov 13, 2006 2:42 pm
Here is a call for papers and performance from a scholarly list I belong to Tony Thomas...
9770
mneiburger@...
mneiburger
Nov 15, 2006 12:11 am
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...
9771
Mike Iverson
bluesagetrio
Nov 15, 2006 3:35 am
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...
9772
Paul Tyler
drdosido69
Nov 15, 2006 4:34 am
What does she have against Stephen Wade? Paul mneiburger@... wrote: And for a West Coast view of the 5-string banjo.....with no mention of Black...
