Re: Christmas presents for mandolin players
This thread is getting to look like mandolin-players' letters to Santa. To the moderators, if you're forwarding this to the North Pole, let them know that I'd like that Ellis with the herons on the head -- but I'd be happy with a string-winder.
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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