certainly CGDA
Type: Posts; User: frankie
certainly CGDA
This is heartbreaking news, Sheri, but thank you for passing it on. He and I corresponded many times and he was a universe of experience about Italian music on records, too. He will be sorely...
lovely instruments, both! play them in good health!
that is just plain stunning. The first time I heard the Gioviale recording, I thought "it's impossible that this is being played by ONE person." On a second listening, I thought "it's impossible...
The song 'U Carrittieri comes from the singing of the Sicilian singer, Saverio Benigno, and was recorded in NYC in 1918. The title means "the cart driver," and there are many examples of folk themes...
Sheri Mignano Crawford has a very large collection of Italian sheet music, scans of which she has made available. Check out this thread:
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Thanks, Joe and Jairo. I'm not sure I can see myself as someone with good technique, but I suppose we're all somewhere on the 'good technique' bell curve.
That's Zio Carmine. A little...
Thanks, Mick. I gotta take it at the pace I can... I'm an accompanist at heart, and pretty unused to being in charge of the melody instrument. I find that it takes exactly the right level of...
My introduction to Italian music was through recordings that were collected by a friend of mine. He would periodically send my transfers of 78s that he had found, and I would typically cringe a...
I think that's unlikely, except in some experimental context - these Harmonia and Nightingale sessions were probably anything but experimental, being basically local, budget labels. I do have...
Both of those recordings are on an LP compilation of Vicari's recordings titled "Mandolinata" - those recordings all seem to be drawn from 78rpm recordings done by Vicari for the Harmonia and...
Thanks, Cary - I do what I can with what I got.
Todd actually built the case. The instruments that he builds occasionally fall outside the sizes, shapes and contours that are supported by...
For the last few weeks and in spite of the pandemic, I've had a welcome visitor in the house... a prototype mandolin built by Todd Cambio (Fraulini Guitar Co.). Todd is a guitar builder with a deep...
Weird, but.... the fretboard on that instrument looks scalloped. That can't be right!
I don't think you need to be so skeptical... :) covers of "The Girl I Love" often appear under the title "Brownsville Blues" or "Goin' To Brownsville" - based on the town mention in the opening...
Nobody would describe it as particularly warm sounding, but it projects well, has a nice bright sound and plays great. I'm not crazy about the scroll headstock - seems to add more weight than is...
This isn't mine, but belongs to a friend of mine and I get to play it when I visit out that way. A Lyon & Healy "De Pace" model.
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It's definitely Charlie McCoy singing. That type of accompaniment on the guitar was a kind of common denominator between the Chatmons and some of the musicians that played with them. Both of the...
I dunno about phenomenal, but I can definitely hold instruments... even expensive ones! We will play Italian tunes (and more) soon!
Thanks, Ranald. It really must have taken some work to get all that together - we were pretty much beneath notice, generally speaking. I have to say it was endlessly amusing to remind Mike this...
The Little Brothers stopped playing together sometime in 2012. We did all kinds of country blues and old-time with varying degrees of success, but we always meant it. Mike was and is a great guy...
This LP was probably recorded in the mid to late 50s and was released on the tiny Edgina label, and likely distributed out of Rossi's shop in Little Italy. Most Edgina records I've seen are of...
Wow... I couldn't agree more... what a tune that is!
You know what makes me REALLY crazy about it? The bowed bass on that recording is FANTASTIC. It's ALL good from top to bottom!
Oh - I totally agree, and it's the reason I posted what, in my admittedly limited experience, were some common (and fairly accessible) tunes within Sheri's archive.
As a collection, Sheri's...