Early Southern Guitar Sounds

Mike Seeger - Early Southern Guitar Sounds

Early Southern Guitar Sounds
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Artist: Mike Seeger
Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Model: SFW40157
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. Wildwood Flower
  2. Old Chisholm Trail
  3. Spanish Fandango
  4. Shakin' the Pines in the Holler
  5. Weary Lonesome Blues
  6. White Oak Mountain
  7. I'm Crazy Over You
  8. Can't Get a Letter from Home
  9. Guitar Rag
  10. Smoketown Strut
  11. Big Kid's Barroom
  12. Fishing Blues
  13. After All Has Been Said and Done
  14. Joe Lee's Tune
  15. Carroll County Blues
  16. Birmingham Tickle
  17. Worried Blues
  18. Kenny Wagner's Surrender
  19. Arizona
  20. Pearly Dew
  21. Risselty Rosselty
  22. Johnny Doyle
  23. Black Jack David
  24. John Henry
  25. Buckdancer's Choice
  26. Riley and Spencer
  27. When This World Comes to an End
  28. Leaning on the Everlasting Arm

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Free Music Review: This recording belongs in every home
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At 75 years old, Mike is still alive and kicking very hard as the most outstanding player, historian, and analyst of Southeastern traditional music Black and white in America. He's unique in that as he likes to say, he was never very good at "book learning" and with the exception of a few out of print music instruction books and his brilliant "Talking Feet" book and film which should be in every home, most of his writing has come in liner notes, or talks at performances or where old time music savants gather. However, he has created a body of work in his 60 years of performances and in the many living traditional singers and musicians he has recorded and promoted, and in the recordings he has done with the New Lost City Ramblers, the Strange Creek Singers, and with other old time musicians like Alice Foster (now Gerard) and Paul Brown.

This album is apparently a successor to his magnificent Southern Banjo record that catalog traditional Black and white Southern banjo playing magnificently coming like this set does with an instructional DVD.

Even more than on the Banjo Sounds set, Mike covers a broad selection of different old time guitar sounds, both African American and European American and much mixed. Old time guitar comes from many places. Some of it comes from the polite usually sentimental parlor guitar styles that were a big part of 19th Century genteel life and the chief center of guitar playing until the early 20th Century when inexpensive factory made guitars with steel strings first became available by mail order throughout the rural South.

The emergence of the steel guitars came at a time that a revolution in music was going on, Ragtime and the Blues and the beginnings of Jazz were stirring. The old fiddle repertoire was being changed by the addition of banjos to what had often been solo fiddles. People were trying to make music that combined the old traditions with the new sounds and people moving to the guitar were using techniques that they had used on the banjo as well as making new music no banjo had ever played.

Spanish Fandango on this CD was one of the signature pieces of the standard parlor and performance guitar styles of the 19th and early 20th Century. If you bought a book on how to play guitar in 1890, it might have had the Spanish Fandango as the last piece showign you really could play. It was so popular with Southern white and Black guitarists, that the open G tuning which it is done in is still known by many as the "Spanish Tuning."
On the other hand, the John Henry on this album is exactly the kind of slide D Sebastopol Tuning (named for the "Seige of Sebastopol" written by the same author as the Spanish Fandango and also a parlor guitar specialty) that Black guitarists especially in Virginia and North Carolina aspired to play when the guitar and the blues swept in in the 1910s and 1920s.
One of my favorites here is the reproduction of Frank Hutcheson's magnificent "Worried Blues," a slide guitar. There is much else here.
Now, I first met Mike at the Banjo collectors gathering where he would frequently bring a rare old banjo played by an historic banjoist like Dock Boggs or Josh Thomas. On this CD he delves into his own collection and those of friends and collaborators to present an array of historic guitars whose description in the well written notes open the door to the history of guitars in the US.

This recording belongs in every home

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The guitar fostered great creativity in the South as it evolved from a small gut-string instrument in polite parlors to the big, loud, steel-string guitar now found in our homes and onstage. Mike sings and plays a variety of the styles that were played in the rural South from about 1850 to 1930 on 25 different types of guitars. Featured are: banjo-like styles, rags, blues, parlor and parlor-based styles, slide guitar styles, and many song accompaniment styles. The booklet includes a fresh look at the history of the guitar and its travel South, notes on songs and styles, and photographs of all the instruments used. 28 tracks, 36-page booklet, 74 minutes

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