raybob - Posted - 12/07/2016:  08:05:33

I Fall To Pieces

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/07/2016:  08:38:25

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OM45GE - Posted - 12/07/2016:  10:38:54

Working Too Hard

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/07/2016:  10:51:51

Working Man Blues.            (Bill, can you tell what kind of guitar is in that Ernest Stoneman pic?) 

sethG - Posted - 12/07/2016:  12:33:54

Man on the silver mountain

OM45GE - Posted - 12/07/2016:  13:04:29

By The Silvery Rio Grande

I can't tell Chuck. I'm going to have to try and find an image I can expand. That one just takes you to the You Tube video.

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/07/2016:  13:12:29

--I found this ,,interesting

I mentioned the copy of Ernest Stoneman's Galiano that I made, but realized that I haven't explained the guitar yet. Here goes:



Ernest Stoneman was one of the earliest people to record country music. He came before the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, and actually had a hand in setting up the legendary Bristol Sessions. Stoneman played guitar, autoharp and harmonica, he was a great singer and songwriter. His real gift was as a bandleader. Stoneman assembled the Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers and the Pilot Mountaineers, among others.



Besides being one of the pioneers of country music, my other fascination with Stoneman was his guitar, an Auditorium sized Galiano. I was first introduced to the guitar by Kirk Sutphin, who asked me if I had ever come across a similar one. That started five year search to figure out exactly what it was that Stoneman played.



Galiano was a brand name of guitar that was used by several builders, among them, Antonio Cerrito, Raphael Ciani, Giuseppe Nettuno and Antonio Grausso. The Oscar Schmidt company also made guitars under the Galiano name, but these guitar don't differ much from the other stock models that they made. The guitar that I've played for the past ten years is actually an Oscar Schmidt made Galiano, which has a Galiano label pasted directly over a Stella label. I'm not sure where Galianos were marketed. Likely it is a generic name referring to the Gagliano family who made violins and mandolins in Naples, and was used much like the Stradivarius name was used on inexpensive violins.



Stoneman's guitar was made by one of the smaller independent shops, most likely Antonio Cerrito's or Raphael Ciani. The whereabouts of his actual guitar are unknown. His daughters told me varying reports, that it had been backed over by their car after forgetting to pack it after a gig, and that he sold it during the Depression. Hopefully it will someday surface.



In making a copy of the guitar I worked off of photos of Stoneman with the guitar and gained clues off of the different angles which he was holding the guitar in the photos. From the photos, I was able to deduce that the guitar had unstained maple or birch back and sides, a dark binding, probably rosewood, the same fingerboard inlays which were used on some of the fancier Galiano and Oscar Schmidt guitars, a bound fingerboard and headstock. I had many conversations about the guitar with ace remastering engineer and co producer of the Stoneman set, Chris King.

Meles_Meles - Posted - 12/07/2016:  20:15:17

30 Pieces of Silver chords

OM45GE - Posted - 12/08/2016:  03:00:31

Silver City Bound 

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/08/2016:  03:37:06

Silver Threads and Golden Needles

OM45GE - Posted - 12/08/2016:  04:57:12

Hangin' By A Thread

Meles_Meles - Posted - 12/08/2016:  20:25:13

You Keep Me Hangin' on

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/08/2016:  21:18:26

The Hanging Tree

OM45GE - Posted - 12/09/2016:  12:32:26

Mama Don't Allow No Lowdown Hangin' Around  

J e f f - Posted - 12/09/2016:  12:48:45

Fooled Around And Fell In Love

OM45GE - Posted - 12/09/2016:  13:18:01

I Was Fooled

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/09/2016:  21:14:03

youtu.be/D1krxVSX5H0        Fools Rush In

Edited by - chuckv97 on 12/09/2016 21:19:53

OM45GE - Posted - 12/10/2016:  04:31:46

Women Have a Way With a Fool 

raybob - Posted - 12/10/2016:  08:04:39

Help On The Way

J e f f - Posted - 12/10/2016:  09:26:40

I Can Help

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/10/2016:  10:27:31

Help Me Rhonda

OM45GE - Posted - 12/10/2016:  10:44:20

Help Me Out, Hook Me Up 

raybob - Posted - 12/10/2016:  11:00:19

By Hook Or By Crook

(Dan Hicks)

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/10/2016:  11:11:58

Hook ,Line and Sinker 

The first thing she done when they set her free

From the women's correctional facility

Was to come here askin' me for a reconciliation

She said she'd changed her ways for good

And all she was, was misunderstood

So I did everything I could for her rehabilitation

Hook, line and sinker - I swallowed all of her lies

Hook, line and sinker - she took me for a ride

Just one look at that innocent face

I didn't think twice, I just snapped up the bait

Hook, line and sinker

Read more:  Blackhawk - Hook, Line, And Sinker Lyrics | MetroLyrics

OM45GE - Posted - 12/10/2016:  13:43:20

Line Shack Blues 

Forrest - Posted - 12/10/2016:  16:01:52

Blue Night

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/10/2016:  16:27:22

The Grass is Blue

Edited by - chuckv97 on 12/10/2016 16:29:46

J e f f - Posted - 12/10/2016:  17:10:34

Love Is Blue

OM45GE - Posted - 12/10/2016:  17:40:49

Happier Blue

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/10/2016:  19:56:16

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Meles_Meles - Posted - 12/10/2016:  20:06:42

Im Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair

raybob - Posted - 12/11/2016:  04:34:05

Have I The Right ?

J e f f - Posted - 12/11/2016:  07:47:03

Have You Never Been Mellow

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/11/2016:  08:46:23

Mellow Yellow

raybob - Posted - 12/11/2016:  17:27:52

Big Yellow Taxi

J e f f - Posted - 12/11/2016:  17:34:38

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/11/2016:  19:29:57

Dix Says on the Road

OM45GE - Posted - 12/12/2016:  03:43:54

God Says Nothing Back

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/12/2016:  05:25:07

(Ah,,a rule bender- but I like it)



Back to the Barrooms Again

Edited by - chuckv97 on 12/12/2016 05:25:54

raybob - Posted - 12/12/2016:  07:18:03

My Back Pages

OM45GE - Posted - 12/12/2016:  07:36:34

Back On My Feet Again

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/12/2016:  09:06:30

Get Back

Forrest - Posted - 12/12/2016:  09:16:33

Baby Got Back

raybob - Posted - 12/12/2016:  09:32:54

Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me

Forrest - Posted - 12/12/2016:  10:06:34

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down

OM45GE - Posted - 12/12/2016:  10:52:42

Last Fair Deal Gone Down

chuckv97 - Posted - 12/12/2016:  14:15:45

Roseville Fair

J e f f - Posted - 12/12/2016:  15:10:01

Scarborough Fair

OM45GE - Posted - 12/12/2016:  18:07:10

She Moved Through The Fair