Panhandle Pete

A totally original one-man music group, this NEW YORK artist was created J. Howard Nash and started playing music on the sensitive age group of seven. In his mid-twenties he created a novelty work in which he’d use a large number of instruments that have been fastened to his body with all types of straps, ropes, and elastic bands. These included not merely the anticipated banjo and electric guitar and obligatory neck-strap harmonica, but a complete group of whistles, bells, crash cymbals, horns, etc. By the finish of his profession he had a complete of some 32 different sound-making equipment installed and prepared to end up being blown, honked, or banged when the correct moment would arrive. He produced some recordings for Decca in 1938, the six edges with electric guitar and harmonica including his very own tune “Blue, Weary, and Lonesome.” Without ever learning to be a main celebrity, he made an appearance regularly on tv aswell as festivals like a regular event arranged by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in Panhandle’s hometown of Asheville.