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Playing Since: 1977
Jim Yates has made 205 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: music teacher/musician
Gender: Male
Age: 69
My Instruments:
no-name pre-war open-back, S.S.Stewart tenor, home-made fretless, home-made open-back.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
John Hartford, Pete Seeger, Howie Burson, Mike Seeger, Tommy Thompson, Robin & Linda Williams, New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paley, John Cohen, Red Clay Ramblers , Michael Cooney, Hedy West, Derroll Adams, Karen Dalton, Cathy Fink, Chris Coole , Arnie Naiman, Bob Carlin, Mac Benford, David Holt, Ola Belle Reed, Brian Pickell, Mac Benford, Wade Mainer, Roscoe Holcomb, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Raymond McLain, Gus Cannon, Dock Boggs.
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Also some friends from southern Ontario who may not be as famous, but I learn something every time I play with them or listen to them: Jay Edmonds, Rick Baur, Dennis Delorme, Karen Taylor, Kate Jarrett, Sam Allison and Teilhard Frost (who also builds wonderful gourd banjos)...
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You will notice that all of these (except John Hartford, whose playing I have loved since I first bought Morning Bugle thirty years ago) are old-time banjo players, since this is the type of banjo music I enjoy playing. I have many favourite musicians who play 3-finger/bluegrass style banjo (like Al Kirby) and tenor banjo and who play other instruments, but if I put them all down the list would be too long for anyone to bother to read it anyway. I realize that some of the players I have listed are also bluegrass players, but their old timey style was what attracted me to their playing.
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Jackie Washington turns 88
Saturday, November 17, 2007 @2:31:03 PM
Maggie and I made the long rainy drive down the 401 to Toronto last Monday to Hugh's Room for Jackie Washington's 88th birthday celebration.
Jackie has been one of my musical heros since I first saw him circa 1964 at Hamilton's Black Swan Coffee House. I had just bought a guitar and learned all three chords and was quite proud of myself. After seeing Jackie, who was over 20 years younger than I am now, I bought Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar book and tried to play just like Jackie. I even looked around for a flat top Kay guitar just like he played, even though my 1958 Goya M-26 was probably a much nicer guitar.
The celebration at Hugh's Room included a bunch of Jack's friends: Ken and Chris Whiteley, Ben Whiteley, Brent and Liam Titcomb, Nancy White, Willie P. Bennett and others. They all told Jackie stories and sang songs that had to do with Jackie or reminded them of Jackie. There was even a reunion of the Original Sloth Band. When Maggie and I first met, the first record I ever loaned her was a Sloth Band Record.
Many thanks to Ken Whiteley for organizing this wonderful evening. |
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