I have just acquired a copy of "The Executioner's last songs" by the Pine Valley Cosmonauts (Bloodshot records). It's a benefit cd for the Illinois death...
I'm listening to "The Word" (Robert Randolph/John Medeski/North Mississippi Allstars) and "Not All Who Wander Are Lost" (Chris Thile - with JD on dobro) at...
Hamish Welcome to the list. The Didmarton festival is mainly a picking festival, there is a stage & PA and some local bands play, but the main activity is...
Help! I'll be in London over the weekend. Can anyone give me a tip about pubs (or anywhere else) where I might hear folk or bluegrass this weekend? Please...
There's a picking session at the Hemingford Arms in Islington on a Monday evening, which Ced Thorose hosts (great slide player and builder)...
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hi i joined to0day. i see most of you seem to have dobros but i have a selmer electric lap steel probably about the 1930s ish ive just got it going after it...
Hi Geoff I don't, but have your heard ot the British Steelies Society? They have a lot of stuff on pedal steels and laps steels. Contactable on the web. ...
Some of those old Selmer lap -steels are actually re-badged rickenbacher guitars, although apparently rickenbacher deny ever shipping guitars to England in...
Having gotten totally fed up with trying to learn to play dobro on a nylon-stringed acoustic guitar, I got on a plane to London last weekend and spent 5...
Afternoon all You asked for a few personal details so here they come: Name: Hamish Sutherland Age: 59.9999999 yrs Live in: Uppsala, Sweden Machine park: 2 PCs,...
... http://messenger.msn.com Chris (mate) and I had a great time at the reso centre recently - Chris was VERY taken with the Chanticleer mandola - I just put...
Just had a mail from Sally. She has mislaid the list with your e-mail addresses. Can you drop her a line. We must have made some impression then. Regards, Bill...
Hi everyone, I am going to the picking week-end at didmartin, probably arriving friday afternoon. Any other dobroteers attending?? dave - David Currie ...
David Currie
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I've sent two emails to Andrea lately and haven't had a reply. Do any of you Brits know if she's away on hols or any such? Just want to put a deposit to...
Bill and I will be there, probably H too. There are usually one or two others. Martin ... everyone, ... __________________________________________________ Do...
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Hey up Dave, Martin and I will be there. Len is on holiday at the moment. H -- are you coming along? See you on Friday,...
Bill, I will be there on the Saturday, and will bring the tape - thanks. Was that a subtle hint that you are doing Fire Ball Mail as your workshop tune - lucky...
All these Dobro players coming to Didmarton, fantastic. It's turning into a slidy convention. You won't be disappointed since I have the great Martin Froud...
Hi everyone, just got home after an extended holiday down south, which started off with the Didmartin picking week-end. Well Didmartin was a blast, the weather...
David Currie
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Hi, I don't seem to post much on the resoUK list but really enjoy reading all the other posts. Anyway, I have been involved in a project on the Jerry Douglas...
Nicholas Charles Jones
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Sep 9, 2002 10:22 pm
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... From: Andrew Perry [mailto:perry@...] Sent: 15 September 2002 00:33 To: ResoUK Moderator Subject: Hi - new picker signs on ***A T T E N T I O...
Hi Andrew -- welcome. A low traffic list but packed with lots of people willing to give advice. Moderated by the legendary Len (Horn) Harvey who is usually the...
Hi Andy, welcome to the list. Let us know where you are from. There may be pickers in your area. I'm up in glasgow. dave - David Currie Laboratory...
David Currie
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Hi Andy and welcome, I'm based in the Isle of Man and I make resos as well as play them. I even have a website if you want to know more about me - see below....
Hi Andy, and likewise welcome. I presume you have heard about Sore Singers week, where the legendary Sally van Meter will be teaching us lot. It runs at Easter...
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Might Andrew Perry be the very same Andrew Perry who played in Hampshire based Trio with Pat Francis and David Jordan? If Yes, welcome back to the sanity of...
Hi Len, many thanks for your intro. Bill D, Hi, and yup I play a squareneck (natch !) David C - Glasgow eh? - Well I'm almost as far away from you as I can get...
Hi Folks, just returned from the funeral of Russell Cooper. Some of you may of known him from the bluegrass festival circuit. Russell ran the Guildtown...
Thanks Dave for letting us know about Russell. I had a few dealings with Russell through the BBMA when he was involved just before he became ill. I remember...