Mike Brosnan posted this on fb, and I thought some of you might be interested in it.
This is probably about as close to amateur parlor music from the turn of the century, as we'll ever get. Mrs. Hughes was born in 1904 and began playing music at the age of 9.
She made her only, apparently self produced, record in 1960's, which is now being reprinted.
The story and some sample tracks:
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/06/171294400/the-ancient-vibration-of-parlor-music-revived-by-two-generations
The album and the tracklist on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Flat-Guitar-Lena-Hughes/dp/B00AF6B16Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1360256385&sr=1-1&keywords=Queen+Of+The+Flat+Top+Guitar
Cheers
Pan
This is probably about as close to amateur parlor music from the turn of the century, as we'll ever get. Mrs. Hughes was born in 1904 and began playing music at the age of 9.
She made her only, apparently self produced, record in 1960's, which is now being reprinted.
The story and some sample tracks:
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/06/171294400/the-ancient-vibration-of-parlor-music-revived-by-two-generations
The album and the tracklist on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Flat-Guitar-Lena-Hughes/dp/B00AF6B16Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1360256385&sr=1-1&keywords=Queen+Of+The+Flat+Top+Guitar
Cheers
Pan