Probably not much mandolin connection but another musician from Country Music's Golden Era has passed. Met his Waterloo on December 4th according to the article. RIP
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...180141780.html
Probably not much mandolin connection but another musician from Country Music's Golden Era has passed. Met his Waterloo on December 4th according to the article. RIP
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...180141780.html
"I play BG so that's what I can talk intelligently about." A line I loved and pirated from Mandoplumb
My goodness. One of those forgotten ones who helped shape my musical past which formed my musical present.
RIP Stonewall. I listened to his recording of Waterloo this morning.
A Country Music Icon, RIP Stonewall.
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One of the greats without question. This is such a superb and bleak song- and a great album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dY5hKC2AzA
One of my early memories was when one of the mothers in our neighborhood came out to look at what was wrong with the radio because all the neighborhood kids were singing "Waterloo, Waterloo, Waterloo, Waterloo..... over and over. We had no idea what the song was about but it sounded cool. She thought the radio got stuck or something.
Saw him with my Dad when I was just a kid. His voice stuck with me, we now do 'Washed My hands in Muddy Water' often.
A sad part of life.......
Not all the clams are at the beach
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In the early 1960s I bought a 98 cent Columbia "Country Music Sampler" record. I bought it because there was a Flatt and Scruggs tune on it and they were not easy to find in those days. It also included "The Black Sheep" by Stonewall Jackson which was one of those old country songs that just sounds ancient. It was 10 years later or more that I learned that the Monroe Brothers (Bill and Charlie) had recorded it in the 1930s. Bill Monroe, Stonewall Jackson. There your mandolin connection.
Thanks for that. I love old C&W music and Stonewall Jackson was a major player IMO. Although I don't hear a lot of B.G. sound in his records, I believe, like a lot of his contemporaries, he was influenced by that music. I know he hosted some festivals of some sort that I'm sure attracted 'parking lot pickers' of all kinds!
"I play BG so that's what I can talk intelligently about." A line I loved and pirated from Mandoplumb
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