Re: Unusual Instrument at a Jam
Today's sessions for my sweetheart's birthday included voices, guitars, banjo, fiddle, piano accordion, melodeon, and saw. Sadly, I was too busy hosting and chauffeuring to find time to bring out the mandolin. I did get a song in though, plus a few tunes on someone else's fiddle.
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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