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Post by carolinablues on Jul 22, 2014 13:12:39 GMT -5
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Post by AlanB on Apr 8, 2015 3:18:29 GMT -5
I see that this thread has been dormant for a while so thought I'd wake it up with the attached which I was approached to write in 2000 in support of a propose Blind Boy Fuller marker/headstone. From memory it did eventually take place. (Click image to zoom) Attachments:
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Post by JamesP on Apr 8, 2015 7:46:44 GMT -5
William Howard Taft Armstrong was born in Dayton, Tennessee, and grew up in LaFollette, Tennessee. As a young teenager he taught himself to play the fiddle, and joined a band led by Blind Roland Martin and his brother Carl. They toured the United States performing a wide range of music, from work songs and spirituals through popular Tin Pan Alley tunes and foreign language songs. www.nytimes.com/2003/08/02/arts/howard-armstrong-94-string-band-fiddler-and-mandolinist.html
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Post by JamesP on Apr 8, 2015 8:04:12 GMT -5
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Post by JamesP on Apr 13, 2015 15:37:04 GMT -5
Rocky Road Blues' Bill Monroe inspiration for this great Guitar Picking player !!! Archie Edwards (1918 - 1998) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning several decades, worked variously with Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and John Jackson. His best known tracks included "Saturday Night Hop", "The Road is Rough and Rocky", and "I Called My Baby Long Distance". In the 1950s, his own barber shop attracted blues musicians, who helped to kickstart Edwards' musical career. Edwards described his performing as "I play what they call the old Piedmont style, but I call it East Virginia blues 'cause that's where I learned it" Enjoy end please visit Archie Foundation : www.acousticblues.com/
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Post by carolinablues on Apr 18, 2015 8:29:55 GMT -5
I haven't been here for a while.
Blind Boy Fuller was an AMAZING guitar player.
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Post by carolinablues on Apr 18, 2015 9:29:11 GMT -5
Buddy Moss played a Piedmont style of country blues in Atlanta.
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Post by AlanB on Apr 20, 2015 6:16:23 GMT -5
It took decades before somebody twigged that Buddy had on been the cover of Yazoo LP 1013 (East Coast Blues 1926-1935) since 1968! www.wirz.de/music/mossfrm.htm
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Post by JamesP on Apr 20, 2015 6:45:25 GMT -5
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Post by carolinablues on May 2, 2015 14:36:53 GMT -5
Just posted this on Blues-Talk... Includes one of my favorite McTell sides - dying Crapshooter's Blues. Blind Willie McTell was a Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike ... Wikipedia Born: May 5, 1898, Thomson, GA Died: August 19, 1959, Milledgeville, GA www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/blind-willie-mctell-1898-1959
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Post by AlanB on May 3, 2015 1:55:18 GMT -5
A fantastic job of work from Stefan Wirz regarding a WMcT discography and at the end some magazine/book covers relating to McTell. www.wirz.de/music/mctelfrm.htm
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Post by JamesP on Sept 16, 2015 14:55:01 GMT -5
Gabriel Brown born somewhere in Florida in 1910. Great Piedmont guitar player and vocalist.
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Post by AlanB on Sept 17, 2015 0:41:33 GMT -5
FWIW his entry entry in LeBlanc & Eagle - Blues A Regional Exploration 2013
Gabriel Brown (v/g) (probably Blue Springs, Gadsden County, 1910). He enjoyed postwar commercial success. Florida’s death index fails to show that he drowned around 1972, as elsewhere reported.
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