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Topic: Hop Wilson? |
John Billings
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Pete Finney
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 8:27 am |
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| I've heard a few songs of his on compilations, pretty cool "blues" steel. I think he is/was from Houston, Texas. |
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Jim Sallis
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 9:12 am
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| Straightahead hard blues. A Texas player, very influential on a lot of younger standard blues guitarists, virtually unknown to everyone else. An amazing player, though. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 9:15 am
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 9:18 am
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Good stuff, sang his butt off. I bought the Bullseye release on cassette probably 20 years ago.
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HowardR
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 9:49 am
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| Is it true that he played his T8 (I think) Stringmaster just set on a card table with an ashtray and a bottle?......or is that folklore? |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 10:47 am
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 12:17 pm
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| I just ordered the cd. Anyone know his tunings" |
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Michael Lee Allen
From:
Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 9:31 am
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 9:40 am
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| Michael, thanks for the info. I'm currently finishing up a restoration of a 67 Baldwin/Shobud that I will be putting into a tuning very similar to Dobro/Bottleneck Low G Tuning. It will use all 6 pedals and 2 knees. There will be 3 sorta chromatics, but they will be used to duplicate some 6-string guitar "blues-bends." Don't have it all sorted out yet, and will probably do a bunch of experimenting with the "sorta chromatic strings." This tuning will allow me to shift between G tuning, Em tuning, and Emaj tuning with the pedals and knees. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 10:14 am
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 10:32 am
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| Howard? Where'd your hear/read that? MLA |
Where else?....here.......  .....in No Peddlers some years ago.... |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 10:34 am
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Hop Wilson - now there's a name I don't hear every day. Great blues slide/steel player. Michael, you're probably right about being the only guy here who's seen him live, I didn't get to go to Texas till he was pretty much done. But I sure have heard his recordings. I agree - this is pure blues playing, forget about any country steel guitar notions. "Chicken Stuff" is in E, I always assumed it was just the standard E tuning, E-B-E-G#-B-E.
He had a very smooth and unique style of playing blues slide. Really a nice smooth tone, I found some of his old records in the early 70s. They and most of my old records were stolen along with my stereo in about '73 at Antioch, but I did find a Charly reissue in the mid-late 80s with a bunch of stuff with Hop playing with Ivory Lee Semien or "His Two Buddies" - "Chicken Stuff" and "Rockin with Hop". They labeled it Goldband GCL-115, with some early Guitar Junior (aka Lonnie Brooks aka Lee Baker) on the other side. That and the other Charly Goldband reissues are great, I have several.
If you want to hear some of the old Goldband stuff, try this University of Mississippi site - it actually has streaming audio of "Chicken Stuff" -
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/goldband/recordings/
This page is devoted to Hop, and gives a short bio and a direct link to "Chicken Stuff":
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/goldband/artists/hop_wilson/
In fact, they have pages on most if not all of the Goldband artists from back when, including if you can believe it, an early recording of Dolly Parton - "Puppy Love", recorded by Eddie Shuler, owner of Goldband, in 1960 - here's the page:
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/goldband/artists/dolly_parton/
There's tons of cool music on that main recordings page, especially cajun music, which is quite natural since Goldband was in Lake Charles, LA. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 10:48 am
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Dave! What a great site! Thanks much!
Obviously slide wizard Roy Rogers has heard of Hop! |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 11:28 am
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Oh, yeah - Roy sounds like he was influenced by this style of playing.
The blues tradition is primarily an aural, not a written one. I think it's important to listen to as many of the masters as possible to get ideas. I never, ever try to exactly emulate anybody, but I want to allow myself to be influenced. |
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HowardR
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 11:54 am
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I just dug out one of his albums....actually, I got it from you Michael....some years ago along with a bunch of other wonderful vinyl.....
yeah....no card table, No Stringmaster, no bottle, no ashtray......shoot!!!.....this is now too respectful.....
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 3:52 pm
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 7:26 pm
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| Hey, that sounds great...... |
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HowardR
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Ethan Shaw
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2012 3:40 pm
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| I was looking at this, and found that the definitive tunings had been deleted. Anyone know for sure what Hop's tunings were? |
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