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Rural musicians were very frequently no more than frustrated vaudevillians - Tony Russell, Blacks Whites and Blues, p.14

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Offline Chezztone

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #45 on: January 16, 2007, 09:09:40 PM »
Those "Blues Breaks" that Robert Mugge and I made for "Year of the Blues" are on youtube now. Mississippi Public Broadcasting sponsored them but they also were shown on many other public TV stations. One-minute films before and after the long Scorsese features. Here's the first one; you can find the rest by searching on "Mugge" or "Cheseborough" on youtube. Enjoy! SC
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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #46 on: January 19, 2007, 01:18:17 PM »
i'm not sure how to imbed the videos in the post, but check this out:

No problem, Mike, we never actually explained it officially. I've added a how-to post in Site Announcements. Regular links are fine too though...

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #47 on: January 20, 2007, 01:16:10 PM »
A familiar face on uke...



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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #48 on: January 24, 2007, 04:19:50 PM »
Wow, so there was more film of John Hurt after all.

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« Reply #49 on: January 25, 2007, 12:17:41 PM »
I was fortunate enough to meet and 'jam' with Carl Martin in a hotel room in Toronto in either 1970 or 71. Martin Bogan and Armstrong were playing the Mariposa Folk Festival at the time. He played mandolin exclusively, and it was mostly ragtimey/vaudeville type tunes that he played,as well as things like Old Joe Clark. To my eternal shame I didn't have the gumption,at the time, to identify him as the same Carl Martin who'd recorded in the thirties. I remember I was struggling to learn his version of Crow Jane at the time, laboriously lifting the tone arm and repeating the grooves containing the second chord in the piece. And there he was, in the flesh, sitting next to me on a bed in a hotel room! Aah well, life is full of missed opportunities...

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #50 on: January 26, 2007, 07:16:55 AM »
Did the Even Dozen ever actually perform?  I thought it was just a studio one-off. 

one of the folks in the edjb was "flannel grimes" he sang evolution mamma dont you make a monkey out of me. he performed around denver in the 70's/ great finger style player and guitar teacher at the well known underground bama-lama-rama guitar studios.
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« Reply #51 on: January 26, 2007, 09:11:16 PM »
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well known underground bama-lama-rama guitar studios

Jeez I should get out more...

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« Reply #52 on: February 01, 2007, 10:32:22 AM »
Does anyone know what kind of a guitar Sam is using in that great video?

Mark

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #53 on: February 01, 2007, 10:43:39 AM »
Gibson L-4 archtop, probably from the 50's

http://www.provide.net/~cfh/gibson2.html

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #54 on: February 01, 2007, 10:44:51 AM »
Mark:

The guitar is either a Gibson L-4, L-37 or L-75, all 1930's roundhole archtops. If I had to pick one, I'd go for the L-37 for his instrument.

Alex

John:

You could be right, but the L-4 ceased to be a roundhole after 1937, and I think it had a more arched top than Sam's.

A.
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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #55 on: February 01, 2007, 10:51:23 AM »
You are probably right Alex -- it looks in such great condition that I thought it had to be a later model and guessed 50's without following the specs.

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« Reply #56 on: February 01, 2007, 11:29:18 AM »
Thanks guys.  That is what I was looking for.

Mark

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #57 on: February 02, 2007, 01:01:02 PM »
Does anyone know what kind of a guitar Sam is using in that great video?

Mark

Here it is, a Gibson L-37.

http://www.williesalomon.com/L37_Sam%20Chatmon.htm

BTW www.williesalomon.com is the most pornographic guitar porn site I've ever visited.

Alex
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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #58 on: February 02, 2007, 05:51:23 PM »
Alex,

Hey thanks.  You are right about that site.  Wow what a collection.  Hey that guy is a pretty good picker too.  I listened to some of his CD cuts.  Very good stuff.

Thanks again guys.

Mark

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #59 on: February 02, 2007, 06:20:34 PM »

http://www.williesalomon.com/L37_Sam%20Chatmon.htm

BTW www.williesalomon.com is the most pornographic guitar porn site I've ever visited.


I think that's an ES-125 on the vintage page though, not an ES-150 as it's labeled. Whatever, nice guitar pics.

 


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