Sounds good to me, though I'm familiar with "Swallowtail" and jigs generally played a lot faster by both professionals and amateurs, but that may be...
Thanks. I was thinking that if someone released commercial recordings of those jams, I wouldn't want to be the person assigned to getting permissions...
Welcome aboard, Willow. The Cafe is a very supportive community (but not without the occasional tiff). As the others have said, please tell us about...
You put the coasters under the strings in the area where you pick the strings, then brush the strings as you practice tremolo. The point is to learn...
Thanks for the tunes, John R. and John K. I play "Farewell to Aberdeen" on fiddle, but in Cape Breton, we call it "The Boy's Lament for His Dragon."...
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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