Re: Ragtime Skedaddlers and The Etcetera String Band
Originally Posted by
sixwatergrog
Thanks for the video. I though that woman's name was Meredith Axelrod? I've seen other videos with her and like them all.
The transcriptions are slow going and I have sort of my own way of writing it out in mandolin tab where I don't like to use bars between measures or think of it that way.
You're right. She is Meredith Axelrod, which leaves me wondering who's "Meredith Baxter"? The name rings a bell. I corrected that above (post 4), just to confuse future readers. I agree with you about ragttime. It's quite exacting and requires, at the least, many listenings or many playings. Someone said recently on the Forum that "Alabama Jubilee", his warm-up piece, is the hardest tune he plays. I agree. If I don't play that one regularly, I must go back and relearn sections.
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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