What better reason to do something like music than just because you love it? It's really easy, all you gotta do is quit your day job, and alienate your family, and confuse all your friends, and live in squalor for a few years, and you got it - Bruce Molsky
Well done, Colm! I really like your singing, as per usual, and your playing has a lot of drive. I like the little syncopated rhythmic hitch you put in the signature lick, too. It's great to hear you venturing into non-John Hurt material. Thanks for putting the video up. All best, Johnm
Well, if "mamlish" actually does mean something, I don't know what it is, but if you look at the contexts in which it was used, it appears to function as a non-specific intensifier, as in Bobby Grant's "Nappy Head Blues"
"Head so nappy, feet so mamlish long, looked like a turkey comin' through the mamlish corn"
Substitute "very", "doggone" or f***in'" and you'd have approximately the same meaning.
At one point, I thought "mamlish" might be the feminine equivalent of "mannish", but that idea doesn't hold up under examination of the different contexts in which the word was used.
All best, Johnm
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