The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131335   Message #2963297
Posted By: Bobert
11-Aug-10 - 08:21 PM
Thread Name: The Blues???
Subject: RE: The Blues???
Yeah, thanks, maeve... Had to pick up the P-Vine 12 year old grandson... Think I drove about 600 miles today...

Hey, folks... Now some of ya'll have actually seen this instrument I play... It's called a Lowebow and it is made from a cigar box, two 1 1/4 inch dowel rods for a neck, is fretless, has one baig fat bass string with it;'s own electric pickup and 3 treble strings with 2 pickups... It looks like some toy but when it is plugged in it ain't no toy... Quite a few of us north Mississippi blues players are playin' 'um... Real ggod on the one chord blues... Hey, when I say one chord it ain't exactly just one chord... Ya'll Google up R.L. Burnside and give listen... He's a master... Fred McDowell was the master before him...

BTW, every year there is one super north Mississippi music gathering at the late Otha Turners house just called the "Mr. Otha's Goat Roast" and musicans from all around come and jam and party... It in Como, Ms... In August and everyone is invited... Now ya'll wnat to hear some blues, then this is the real deal...

B~