Thanks for the tunes and instruments, Jo. I always enjoy your postings. Still, I never thought I'd hear the old Canadian campfire song, "Land of The...
Back before Jimmy Rogers and George Vaughan wrote "Blue Yodel #8" (aka "Muleskinner Blues"), there was this song by the blues singer Tom Dickson, in...
That's an oversimplification. Are you sure that some "fiddle tunes" weren't composed on harmonica, banjo, tin whistle, guitar, or mandolin? Some seem...
Are you talking about the man-duh-lin? (We're tight with the vowels up here, but more generous with consonants than in the South.) Still, some rural...
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.
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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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