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Prof
Posted on 8/30/15 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 8/30/15 at 6:31 pm
With football getting ready to gear up
Kicking it old school, Helmet Hair and all.
Autoharp and dulcimer getting harder to hear these days
Banjo and Mandolin version
Kicking it old school, Helmet Hair and all.
Autoharp and dulcimer getting harder to hear these days
Banjo and Mandolin version
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Posted on 8/31/15 at 4:27 pm to Cheese Grits
Damn that autoharp was freaking amazing. As for the dulcimer it's not surprising that we don't hear them as much. True dulcimer makers are hard to find as they were/are family businesses unique to Appalachia. I was lucky although at the time I didn't realize it that one of the last highly recognized dulcimer makers lived in my area. He came to our middle school and showed us all about the dulcimer and talked about how he made them. I really wish I remembered more of it.
It really is amazing how talented this area is musically. East, TN and Eastern, KY especially.
It really is amazing how talented this area is musically. East, TN and Eastern, KY especially.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 6:01 pm to Cheese Grits
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Banjo and Mandolin version
This is the REAL Rocky Top.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 6:37 pm to SavageOrangeJug
Tennessee fiddle playa!
Prof,
Do you remember John Niles and his wife Rena? He would play at our house or we would visit his and it was always magical times indeed. he was a major force in bringing mountain music to a broader national audience. I remember him telling me stories of fighting and being wounded in World War I.
Here is a wik pic of him with a large appalachian dulcimer
Prof,
Do you remember John Niles and his wife Rena? He would play at our house or we would visit his and it was always magical times indeed. he was a major force in bringing mountain music to a broader national audience. I remember him telling me stories of fighting and being wounded in World War I.
Here is a wik pic of him with a large appalachian dulcimer
Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:25 pm to Cheese Grits
No, I'm ashamed to say I didn't appreciate things when I was young and really wrote everything off unfairly. It honestly took me going to a funeral in the county that produced Chet Atkins, Roy Acuff, Carl Smith, Florence Reece, and Kenny Chesney. I sat there and too my horror saw a man with a guitar walkout followed by other singers and thought 'oh Gawd this is gonna be awful.'
Well instead I heard true blue grass/old tyme Appalachian gospel for the first time. Yeah, I'd heard it before but not like this -- this blew me away. It was like hearing the soundrack to O'Brother only better - deeper and I truly understood. I can't blame myself for hating the shite I heard on the radio and all the pretenders but I do wish I'd understood that what the real stuff sounded like was out of this world and nothing like what has been played on the radio for the past 20-30 years.
So it's weird but that was my epiphany. Looking back I realize that the real local musicians were always around me and I'd always heard them but I just didn't pay attention because it was so common to me that it didn't seem important. I mean hell even a lot of big Nashville stars were locals or related to locals and locals would work as session musicians and drive out for recordings so nothing about it seemed anything special.
I bet it was a blast hearing his stories.
Well instead I heard true blue grass/old tyme Appalachian gospel for the first time. Yeah, I'd heard it before but not like this -- this blew me away. It was like hearing the soundrack to O'Brother only better - deeper and I truly understood. I can't blame myself for hating the shite I heard on the radio and all the pretenders but I do wish I'd understood that what the real stuff sounded like was out of this world and nothing like what has been played on the radio for the past 20-30 years.
So it's weird but that was my epiphany. Looking back I realize that the real local musicians were always around me and I'd always heard them but I just didn't pay attention because it was so common to me that it didn't seem important. I mean hell even a lot of big Nashville stars were locals or related to locals and locals would work as session musicians and drive out for recordings so nothing about it seemed anything special.
I bet it was a blast hearing his stories.
This post was edited on 9/1/15 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:25 pm to Prof
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I bet it was a blast hearing his stories.
It was, he said when he was a young man around the turn of the century you could go to remote areas of ETN and EKY and hear the queens english. The music I heard as a wee lad was 4 or 6 part acappella. My siblings were like you when they were younger and were more infatuated with folks like Bill Halley and his Comets.
It saddens me when they want to take the country out of country music and replace it with mainstream rock.
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