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Topic: The Six & Seven-Eighths String Band |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Jouni Karvonen
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Helsinki, Finland
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 7 Jan 2016 9:53 am |
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This is great stuff! I've been into them for a while. Not much of a call for steel guitar in traditional jazz, but this group plays it well.
It's interesting to me how the steel guitar sort of has the trombone role in this band, with the mandolin playing the clarinet type runs around the melody.
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Joe Elk
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2016 10:16 am
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I liked it!! I have spent the last hour listening to in and other music from the 20's. Much better than ilk on TV!
Joe Elk |
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 7 Jan 2016 12:31 pm
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I love the reference to a party on a houseboat, and it is only 101 years ago!
The overall sound is reminiscent of the recordings made by black fiddler Howard Armstrong.
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Jim Sallis
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2016 7:33 am
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| Yes, Martin, Bogan and Armstrong were doing much the same as the Six and Seven-Eights were doing: putting jazz and swing into the string-band setting. Not a lot of that going on back in the day, and this is where many of us first heard it. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 9 Jan 2016 2:30 pm
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I bought the Folkways album back in the 1960's when I was a kid and a folkie! I recently acquired the 2-CD box set on eBay and love it to death!
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Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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