How deep do you go musically?

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 08:41 AM

I'm one of the younger old timers. Been listening to early country, old time, blues, etc. for 40+ years. Been playing old time for 35 odd. For decades my wife and I over-indulged on LPs. Now it's CDs. I've heard almost anybody you could name either live or on recording.

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 12:11 AM

Marty,

Because of my interest in Old Time Music I have collected over the years what I consider some of the best of the old timers. The Blue Sky Boys, Bradley Kincaid. Beuell Kazee, The Original Bog Trotters, Jimmy Rogers, The 1934-36 Sons of the Pioneers Recordings, The Georgia Yellow Hammers LuLu Belle and Skyland Scotty, Joe and Rosa Lee Maphis.

You'll find some of the best singing on these albums. Just try and find them in CD. :-)

Don

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: marty D
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 11:43 PM

Thanks Bob. You've been one of the hi-lites of Mudcat for me. Several of your threads have been fascinating, and they never seem to get derailed by silliness. Maybe it's your age! Just kidding!

marty

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: Deckman
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 11:22 PM

Hi Marty ... darned good question! I think you'll find a 'generation thing' here. Some of us, myself for example, are quite a bit older than most of the posters. What that means is that some of us knew these oldtimers personally. As for myself, I'm NOT a great guitarist, I'm much more of a ballad singer. As such, I hung around some of the 'greats', if you will, early on. My contributions tend to be more in the area of what they were like as people and personalities. I think your thread is going to prove interesting. Thanx for posting it. CHEERS, Bob

Subject: How deep do you go musically?
From: marty D
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 11:06 PM

Some of the best music threads I've seen here over a couple of years have also been the shortest. Sometimes there are a fair number of posts but they often end up with only three or four people in discussion. Recent ones on Blind Lemon and Piedmont blues have been great, and I especially like discussions about the roots of someone like Dylan or Doc Watson. Some of the black gospel threads have also presented lots of interesting information, but I'm curious, how many folks actually OWN recordings of the early country, Gospel, blues or folk artists, and listened to them before coming on Mudcat. Through suggestions from Mudcat I've gotten to love the Delmore Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, and most recently Frank Hutchison and Fiddlin' John Carson from that great site with the old 78s.

marty