Somewhat off-topic, but semi-related. I was just looking through this month's issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, and came across an article on guitar and mandolin maker Ben Pearce...
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Somewhat off-topic, but semi-related. I was just looking through this month's issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, and came across an article on guitar and mandolin maker Ben Pearce...
This 2008 article in Mandolin Magazine gives some more detailed information about the project that I don't think was included in the original thread:...
A bit off topic, my barbershop here in Columbus opened in 1919. When I first went there about six years ago (after the shop I had been going to for 40 years closed) they told me that there was a...
Thanks very much for the advice! I'll give the sponge-in-the-case method a try.
Sorry for the very late reply - a result of a) a stay at a friend's 200-year-old rustic log farmhouse, and b) the unexpected "death" of my main computer.
Anyway, thanks for the advice. I don't...
So I have a Tacoma M-1 mandolin that my aunt bought in 2001, and which has been stored in her closet ever since. Realizing that she is probably never going to play it, she recently gave it to me.
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A nice interview from about five years ago: http://thefreegeorge.com/thefreegeorge/the-soulman-of-bluegrass-an-interview-with-james-king/
James himself listed "These Old Pictures" (1993) and the first (self titled) Longview project (1997) as his first and second favorite albums of those that he had recorded. So you might as well start...
One of the greatest singers in bluegrass, of any era. A true keeper of the flame.
He was so ill the last few times I saw him I can't say that the news is a total shock, but it is nonetheless very...
I just heard the news on my local public radio station, as they played several of his songs as a tribute.
Perhaps my favorite songwriter. He could convey so much emotion, character, and story in...
No actual mandolin content, but I thought some here might be interested nonetheless. After 45 years with the Seldom Scene (and 20 years as the only remaining founding member), banjo player Ben...
I'm guessing the OP did indeed mean 1840. The wood-rimmed, five-string banjo starting drifting into the nation's popular culture in the 1820s and 1830s (earlier versions had been in the...
That is (was?) a great site - I have used in quite often over the years. The link you provide is the one I always used as well, and it is no longer working for me, either. I hope it has only...
Robert Johnson recorded 29 songs (many with multiple takes) in two recording sessions in 1936 and 1937, all on guitar. The two known photos of him show him with a guitar. He died in 1938. I've never...
That doesn't sound particularly unusual to me - at least not unusual enough to require an "audience taking sides" explanation. Bill had his issues with various people, but most of that was pretty...
Word was just posted on another forum that James Allen Shelton, the long time guitar player for Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, passed away earlier today, after being diagnosed about a...
I saw them at the Gettysburg festival last year... I became an instant fan. Not only is their songwriting great, but their performance was one of the most exciting I saw all weekend. I guess I saw...
Adam is an amazing musician and - from what I can tell - a great guy who clearly deserves to have won the award many times. But between them he and Ronnie McCoury (who is also very deserving) have...
Here you go: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/67khm6st9780252032868.html
They were (hand-painted) scenes of Venice:
http://earnestbanjo.com/8936-2venicea.JPG
http://earnestbanjo.com/8682-1fingerboard.jpg
I've never read or heard any explanation for the rather...
Did she mean old-time tunes with dark lyrics? (which I guess would be old-time songs). When I think of "dark tunes", I usually don't think of lyrics or subject matter, but tunes with a dark, haunting...
I've done things a bit backwards, since I drove yesterday from Ohio to Washington, DC, for a banjo concert at the Birchmere. I figured it might well be canceled, but it had not yet been when I got on...
Sad to say I just saw this on Bluegrasstoday:
http://bluegrasstoday.com/41494/everett-lilly-passes/
We have lost another bluegrass pioneer. Condolences to his family.
I don't know if it was really a matter of the "long hair" and progressive attitudes - Bill did play with younger, long-haired musicians on occasion (although he often seemed compelled to make a joke...