Re: Cape Breton mandolin (1976)
Originally Posted by
Kirk Higgins
With global urbanization, many (most) of the young people have had to leave rural areas for the larger cities. In Atlantic Canada this has been Halifax and outside Atlantic, our young people have traditionally gone to Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.
And, in my parents' and grandparents' generations, Boston, New York, Montreal, Hamilton, Detroit and Windsor (the two cities both having auto plants), where my father moved with the family. These were mostly cities with a great deal of industry and plenty of jobs, paying better than most work back home.
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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