Guest,

You are correct! Andy has a great CD of Gary Davis' gospel songs---and he is the only one I've heard who can come close to Gary's technically very complicated accompanyments for those sacred songs. The base runs in those are just phenomenal. And last night he did some Joseph Spence tunes on guitar that outdid Ry Cooder's nice performances of those. Also did Booker T. Washington (Bukka) White as well--bottleneck on his resophonic guitar. (Fretless gourd banjo too.)

And talk about new info on old cherished musical "certainties":

Andy said that his research has shown him that, in spite of what everyone says and thought, Washington Phillips DID NOT PLAY A DOLCIOLA when backing up his gospel songs on those 9 old 78s he made. It was actually a similar instrument with a different name. His dolciola, which he loves and got back when he, too, thought Phillips was playing a dolciola, does have a piano-like keyboard. But the keys on the right side, where the treble keys would be on a piano, actually play several courses of 4 strings each that are tuned to chords. In that way, it is like certain zithers with sets of strings that are also tuned to chords.------------- The left side of the dolciola's keyboard is just like a piano's keyboard.

I hope that makes sense!

Art