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Guitarist Joe Harris and mandolin participant Kid West, a set of Louisiana music artists most widely known for several 11 paths (including two needs from the elegant “Railroad Rag”) they recorded on Oct 9, 1940, in Shreveport, LA, for the Collection of Congress Folk Archives task, had an uncommon and …

An old-time music frontman, Leonard Stokes recorded with Byron Parker & His Mountaineers in 1940, the music considered among the important tapestries of developing bluegrass parts to become preserved for posterity, and equivalent in worth to the 1st sides cut from the Monroe Brothers. He also performed mandolin, aswell as …

Not to end up being confused with Broadway performers, Motown performers, or soccer tacklers from the same name, Sam Harris was an early on country blues tempo guitarist who followed bassist partner Marco Washington in to the ranks from the Dallas String Music group, an innovative dark string music group …

The names of old-time string bands that recorded in the ’20s and ’30s have a tendency to be pretty ridiculous, a few of them composed by corny disc jockeys or promoters. This group may possess the most severe name from the bunch, predicated on both surname and elevation of bandleader …

Comics and 78 rpm information were the twin poles about that your Cheap Match Serenaders coalesced. Robert Crumb was (and it is) probably one of the most popular underground cartoonists ever, having nearly developed the genre. Robert Armstrong was also mixed up in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region underground …

Rural string band the Cellular Strugglers got started just like the main record companies begun to weary in string bands. The group included two fiddlers, Charles Jones and Adam Areas, and included guitarist Paul Johnson, banjo picker Lee Warren and Wesley Williams on dual bass. The Portable Strugglers recorded tracks, …

Leonard Rutherford was half of the good Monticello, KY, string music group duo Burnett & Rutherford. His clean, sliding fiddle audio, in conjunction with Richard Burnett’s keening vocals and modal banjo playing, make their best-known music, the archaic-sounding “Willie Moore,” a genuine nationwide treasure. Rutherford was just an adolescent when …

In Feb of 1928, guitarist Napoleon “Nap” Hayes and mandolinist Matthew Prater, two dark musicians from Vicksburg, MSi, documented 4 instrumental tunes in Memphis. The music — “Somethin’ Doin’,” “Easy Champion,” “Nothin’ Doin’,” and “Prater Blues” — display the clean musicianship of both players, with Hayes’ electric guitar providing a …

String strap fiddler Posey Rorer was created on September 22, 1891, in Franklin County, Virginia. The sibling in legislation of banjo participant Charlie Poole, Rorer was an integral a part of Poole’s North Nation Ramblers until 1928, whenever a disagreement with Poole resulted in Lonnie William Austin overtaking the fiddle …

The three full-time people from the string music group referred to as the Carolina Chocolate Drops (Dom Flemons on guitar, jug, and harmonica, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle, and Justin Robinson on banjo and fiddle — Sule Greg Wilson sometimes sits in on percussion) met in 2005 on the …