Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Janie
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 11:59 PM

WE WANT YOUTUBE LINKS!

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 01:27 AM

It was the kitty!

GfS

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 09:00 AM

I think there will be some YouTube but I'm not too sure how that all works... There was a real nice woman doing the recording and picture taking... She took a bunch of pics of me and showed 'um to me in her camera...

I think what really iced the competition was the Lowebow... No one had ever seen one or even heard of one... Then here's this ol' gray haired guy up there with a cigar-box with 2 broom handles for a neck plugged in and cookin'... The other part was that, like back in Virginia and in DC, people just don't play that North Mississippi groove so they are curious about it...

No matter...

Will work on pics and YouTube....

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 09:24 AM

Okay... Not sure about the YouTube but pics at:

http://www.vizualexplorations.smugmug.com

click on blues competition

Check out the Lowebow...

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 01:57 PM

Winner of the solo AND duo talent competition.

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 02:00 PM

Here's a link from the site Bobert linked to. Cooool.

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 02:34 PM

I feel sorta stupid asking, but: the site confirms, winner of both solo and duo, but I don't see any pictures of a duo???

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 04:52 PM

It called the solo/duo, f-prince... That the format at the IBC... One or two doesn't matter 'cause it's all gonna be called solo/duo meaning that if I go to Memphis I can take a harmonica player with me or just play solo...

Make any sense???

3 or more is band class...

The Cigar Box page was put together by Ted Crocker for me... He's the guy who built my "Back Porch" geetar which ended up being a prototype for the guitars used in Danny Glover's mover, "The Honeydripper"...

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 05:00 PM

Okay, gotcha now.

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 05:15 PM

Didja see the pics, f-prince that were taken at the challenge??? Like the Lowebow???

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: freda underhill
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 05:27 PM

Sure did - mighty impressive!

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 05:49 PM

BTW, the headless-Bobert picture at the site the frog-p linked was taken a couple last year at the Getaway... I'm not too sure who took it or how it ended up at the Cigar Box Nation site but it's the best one out there of the Lowebow and headless-Bobert's boney fingers...

"Work your fingers to the bone
Whadda ya get
Boney fingers, boney fingers"

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 06:21 PM

Achually, it was Gnu what made the link. But yes, I saw the pics; them's a couple of wild lookin' axes!. Two strings, or more, on the Lowebow?

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 06:25 PM

And yes, those definitely look like boney fingers: long, boney fingers. : )

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 06:35 PM

4 strings, frog-p... One fat (.072ish) bass and three trebley ones (.011 to around .022, none wound), 3 hand wound pickups with one output jack for the bass and the 2 pickups for the trebley ones... Best sound is using a bass amp for the bass and a different amp for the others...

There are about a hundred of these that John Lowe has made and sold to folks... I'd say that most of them are hanging on folks walls... They look easy to play but it took me two solid weeks of fighting with it before the light cam on... I think it was a day or two away from becoming wall art... lol...

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Genie
Date: 12 Oct 11 - 12:18 AM

Well, these ain't from yer award-winnin' performances, Bo-bear, but here you are playin' yer funky blues axes in the "Bobert's Blues Band" 'workshop' at the 2008 FSGW Getaway:

Bobert's Blues Band 1 - 2008

Bobert's Blues Band 2 - 2008
">Bobert's Blues Band 1 - 2008

And here you is with Lonesome EJ and Leadfingers at the 2008 Getaway concert:

Bobert, LEJ, Leadfingers, Getaway concert 2008

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Oct 11 - 07:32 PM

Ouch!!!

Glad I didn't repeat any of those performances this past Sunday or this thread wouldn't exist...

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: olddude
Date: 12 Oct 11 - 11:20 PM

congrats my brother

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Oct 11 - 09:11 AM

Thanx, ol'ster...

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Fortunato
Date: 13 Oct 11 - 09:57 AM

EXTRA FINE AND MOST DELUXE.

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Oct 11 - 11:48 AM

Thanks, Chance... Don't know what "most deluxe" means but it sounds good to me... BTW, if you read this, I still ain't got no contact info on ya'...

B~

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: GUEST,The Bush League
Date: 20 Oct 11 - 08:06 AM

Congrats man!!! We will see you in Memphis. We won the Natchel challenge in Virginia Beach. Can't wait to tear up Beale Street with ya!

~JohnJay, Shane, Royce & Kenya

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 04:39 AM

Good work, Bobert! I always enjoyed your playing, and now you have a new set of folks appreciating it too. Please let the crowd at Archie's Barbershop know...they'll be right proud of you.

Subject: RE: Bobert Wins Charlotte Blues Challenge...
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 08:38 AM

Hey, Bush League...

Very cool!!! Can't wait to see ya'll!!!

The folks at Archie Edwards barbershop already know, Linda-G... BTW, the barbershop itself is a winner, having won a KBA (Keep the Blues Alive) W.C. Handy award back a few years ago...

B~