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Darryl Wolfe, folks please excuse me for breaking into your thread but since I am a cyber dolt this is the only way I can get a message to Darryl. Been going through stuff that's been packed away for...

Here's another. It's about Alan Munde but Sam was there. The few months Alan was in Ky. we didn't do much playing with Sam coz Sam was in BG and Alan & I were in Hopkinsville. We did play at the...

Mr. Bear, I don't want to bore the cafe with a bunch of mundane chatter about all the stuff Sam & I did as bros so haven't posted for awhile. When things that might be of interest cross my grey...

A request:

In June of 1979, Fred (don't push me over the balcony) Shelman got Alan, Sam and I back together at Telluride to do a PRA reunion. After the fester, Sam gave me a tape of our set which...

I'm sure he was tickled pink to work with Doc and others that invited him to be a part of their projects. His biggest childhood hero was John Hartford. Childhood would be the key word here. I'm no...

Much of his outstanding work has come as a sideman, we've discussed that before. With KB "Frost on the Pumpkin", with Doc on his bluegrass album.[/QUOTE]

Amen Stomper. Don't know if Sam would be...

[QUOTE=grassrootphilosopher;728387]Wayne,
the record even made it to Europe. I first heard rave reports from my first banjo player 20 years ago. He also raved about the impecable rythm guitar on the...

Jim, got your post on the private thingy and reponded but being a cyber dolt, thought I would reply here too. my addy is richard854@webtv.net . good to see your name and would love to catch up on...

I'm a couple miles as the crow flys from Blue Water Lake so will keep an eye on the pawn shops and 2 music stores in Grants/Milan.

His fingers do stretch a bit but his slender build adds to the visual. That's why he also gravitated to a thick neck mando. The man with big hands and fingers that always amazed us when he wrapped...

Tom, I was always tryng to get my hands on a D-45 but never did :( The mando I bought when Dan Crary and I put together The Bluegrass Appliance was a 35 or 36 fern. It had a thick neck making it easy...

[QUOTE=TonyP;724727]thanks soooo much Wayne and everybody else who chimed in. Sam was my earliest model for Monroe style mando.

You're weeeelcome Tony. The 1st time Sam saw Bill play live to my...

Tom, are you refering to " Get Back?" We worked it up when we started working with Courtney. To my memory, that's the only Beatles song we did.

Leo took pity on many of us. What a nice guy.

Alan, as for the fumble-fingers, and Sam's talent on loan from God, he started out clumsy but at age 11/12, the mind isn't cluttered with responsibility. He was a sponge waiing to absorb and he did.

John, does what you said at the start of your post mean I'm a legend in my own mind or spare time <}:-)

I didn't mention in my last post how we came up with the name. When Sam was 14, he had no...

Thanks for the questions. 1st, at 11 Sam was basically a strummer. He played at old Joe Clark, could georgia shuffle Black Mt. Rag and 1 or 2 others. I was not his teacher coz I had no BG background....

Picture it, Bowling Green Ky. 1963 at the channel 13 TV station out Morgantown road. Charlie Bush approached me and ask if I would be interested in playing guitar with his 11 year old son standing...

Thanx for the info D C. I left the BG loop around 1970 and so many names I know not. Harry didn't come from a musical family so I doubt if they are related. Is Sammy Shelor a Ky. guy?

Duane, you posted a while back about the roots of " The Other Side of Baker." Here's a couple more for you from that album. On our trip from Ky. to your home town we were driving Kansas late at nite....

No kin at all. Sam didn't meet Harry till he and Cathy moved to Louisville. Cathy was working for ma bell and Sam was a waiter who would sit in with the BGA once in a while.

Isaac, Danny took over my role with the BGA when I quit so he can fill in a lot of blanks. I was there at the beginning and can tell you the who what when where and why BGA came together. I hope you...

Hey Tom, long time no see or hear. for me to chime in I'd need to learn to type with more than 2 fingers <}:-) but if folks have questions, I'll do my best to answer. You could say I was one of the...

Check out Josh Pinkham. He's young but a mover. Great grandad is Texas fiddle giant, Benny Thomason, Grandfather is tenor guitar giant Jerry Thomason.

Get Sam B. to play his arrangement of Take...

June 1979, Telluride Co. Fred Shellman talked Alan, Sam and me into reuniting Poor Richard's Almanac. John Cowan on bass and no time to rehearse. 12 years had passed since the 3 of us had played...

Doc; you mentioned earlier about not being so fond of Sams' rambling solos. It was part of his early years. There were no BG gigs available around Bowling Green back then so Charlie booked us at a...