Tag Archives: Peter Feldmann
The Folk Music Revival (Monterey, CA 1963)
“I always wanted to play different from anybody else . . . and it turned out to be bluegrass music.”
-Bill Monroe,
Monterey California, May 18, 1963 Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian music, Bill Monroe, bluegrass music, Clarence Ashley, country blues, Doc Watson, Folk Music, folklore, John Cohen, Mance Lipscomb, Peter Feldmann
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Eck Robertson, Texas Fiddler, and “Sallie Gooden”
“He had a leather strap around his neck attached to the end pin of the instrument. He spoke of fiddling and occasionally, would raise the instrument to playing position and run his bow across the strings to make a point. His frailty vanished as soon as he laid that bow to the strings: there was the Eck I knew from his recordings! ” Continue reading
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Tagged bluegrass history, early recording, fiddle, fiddler, Folk Music, old time music, Peter Feldmann, Texas fiddling
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Lou Curtiss, A San Diego Folk Hero
Lou Curtiss, and old friend in the music through six decades, passed away this week in San Diego. Our friend, WB Reid shared some reminiscences of his life which I’d like to publish here. Continue reading
