The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62511 Message #1011683
Posted By: Art Thieme
02-Sep-03 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: Muriel Anderson seminar
Subject: RE: Muriel Anderson seminar
I remember Murial as a kid taking lessons at the original location of the Old Town School Of Folk Music on North Ave and Sedgwick in Chicago (1965-1966 era). The next I heard of her she was doing joint concerts with some of the greats -- like Chet Atkins. Someone will, no doubt, do a biography some day and it'll be a fascinating one I am sure. It will be a very "nice" read because Murial Anderson always seemed to me to be a very nice person. No lurid tales anywhere in it. And it'll be a fantastic look at the musical development of a beautiful gal who made me and the other guys shut the hell up about females picking the guitar. That was when males of my generation were chauvenist pigs more often than not, and it was before I was enlightened by feminists grand logic.
Murial Anderson is simply the best. Go to the seminar knowing you're going to come away MUCH better than when you went in---and you'll be a big fan as well.