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Mike Seeger, musician (New Lost City Ramblers), folklorist has died
Mike Seeger, who was in the folk-revival band New Lost City Ramblers, and who documented banjo and other traditional music styles (including little-known ones like the fretless style played in rural...
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Click here to view the embedded video. Today would have been Bill Monroe’s 100th; there was a great NPR story last night. Listen to it in particular for Del McCoury’s account of how Monroe showed him...
View Article“Nobody owned it, nobody’d know who wrote it. The music just told a story.”...
“What we was playin’ in the ’30s was true country music — no electric instruments, no copyrights,” he once said. “Something’d happen and someone’d write a song about it — nobody owned it, nobody’d know...
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Picture of the day
I don’t know anything about this picture except what is evident on the image itself– she’s playing a right-handed banjo upside down (look where the peg for the short string is) and it’s fretless....
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