I'm looking forward to it, Paul. I enjoyed your show at The Log Drive Cafe, a couple of months back. I'd recommend that those who like old, acoustic...
I'm definitely a fan of Guy Davis and greatly enjoy his contemporary take on mostly acoustic blues, firmly rooted in tradition. Furthermore, he plays...
Thanks, men. You led me to lots of good blues on YouTube. I wasn't familiar with the term “Roll & Tumble, nor had I heard "Roll and Tumble Blues" by...
Below is "Limetown" as played by Guy Davis. (He recorded another version with T-Bone Wolk on mandolin, but I can't find it on YouTube.) Davis credits...
When the light hits my mandolin the wrong way, I might blow on it or dust it with a tissue. Otherwise, I just put it through the carwash now and then...
Thank, Mikey. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there are two (or more) John Baldry's in the world! Often blues and folk revivalists dipped into...
From Nova Scotia, living in Ottawa. Play old-time (Canadian old-time, that is) and Cape Breton fiddle. Play mostly blues on mandolin and banjolin.
Location:
Ottawa, Canada
Occupation:
retired (academic) folklorist
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Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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