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Playing Since: 1963
Experience Level: Purty Good
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Occupation: musician/teacher/writer
Gender: Male
Age: 62
My Instruments:
Ome, Ramsey, Buckeye and a couple old fretless things.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Uncle Dave Macon, Blue Ridge Rounders, Glenn Carson, Lisa Roberts, Reed Martin, Harold Carney, Fred Cockerham, Frank Proffitt, Uncle Wade Ward, Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, Son House, Buddy Moss, Adam Hurt, Andy Edmonds, Jake Krack, Jack Magee, The New Lost City Ramblers
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Monday, March 22, 2010 @7:54:17 AM
Forty some years ago, I used to ride in the car, going somewhere with my family to visit friends or more family. Riding along I would dream about playing music, hope to have the radio on, then hope it would play something I wanted to hear.
Today I still long to play music while on those drives to visit family. Most of our friends play music, so there is a joy in that, but when riding with family, you cannot play the music you love. They are not comfortable with anything as real as fiddle and banjo tunes, ballads from days gone by or a good train wreck, murder, cabin song. Heck, some of them live in McMansions where the only thing that is real is debt!
But we all still love our families, we just don't get to choose them. Still it would be nice if families played music together and not just those nauseatingly, fresh faced, family bands that are a dime a dozen and their own cliche. Once in a while families just get together and play tunes for the joy of the music and not with any hidden agenda of salvation or good clean fun. Playing tunes is good clean fun. Perhaps that is why some of the young folks don't go for it? It is it too "square"? I am showing my age.
Also, I resent being called a consumer. We are much more than consumers. We all produce music. We also produce a bunch of our own food, and make new things out of old things under the philosophy of reusing, recyclling and reducing. But that is due in part to our parents and their youth in the depression era.
So we recycle the same tunes, which we also save like heirloom seeds. Life has many parallels. It is our fault if we don't see them, live them and make them work for our lives.
This past weekend we surprised some family members, had wonderful moments of love and laughter. A couple of times while riding, driving or resting amidst the mirth of good family time I found myself wishing I could hold an instrument and play a tune.
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