tucsonsean - Posted - 02/26/2018:  09:53:50

Also, consider the graying of the banjo fraternity. Back in the mid-fifties, when folks were 'discovering' old-time players, they were doing it from field recordings made, at most, only thirty years earlier. Some of the pictures of the groups in Harry's original post are over fifty years old! I'd say they qualify as part of the tradition at this point.

Cleitus - Posted - 03/02/2018:  03:11:14

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I have linked this to the Long Neck Banjos Group. Check out the Merlin Long Neck on the cover of the Hootenanny Party album. By The Way, is the banjo player in the Cumberland Three a young John Stewart?

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Perhaps but if it had not been for the Hootnanny craze, a lot of people in the UK, NZ etc would never have seen or heard the music even in that form. I recall hearing Jim McGuinn playing the intro to whup jamboree with the college 'folk' trio he backed and it was that which grabbed me likewise Peter, Paul and Mary - totally synthesised but led me to people like Odetta.

mikehalloran - Posted - 03/02/2018:  10:38:34

"According to Pete, the extra effort to meet the higher range would force you to push more air and result in a stronger delivery."

As a long time singer, folk to opera and everything in between and a semi retired voice teacher, I can confirm that.

flyingsquirrelinlay - Posted - 03/02/2018:  10:49:11

As always, Boston was not too far behind NYC as a source of folk music: Joan Baez, Tom Rush, "Spider" John Koehner, the Lilly Brothers with Don Stover, later Joe Val and Bill Keith. There was a AM radio program Saturday from noon to 4 pm called "Saturday Americana" that introduced me to the Folk revolution

stanger - Posted - 03/05/2018:  14:00:12

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I lusted for an Ode longneck. They were by far the coolest looking long necks. But alas, could not afford one as a teenager.

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were you lusting after the banjo, or after Miss Esta ? 

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That picture sold a lot of Ode banjos!

I've seen other pictures of Esta; she actually wasn't all that pretty, but this one photo caught her best photogenic qualities, and the  lighting and reflective pose made her the perfect Ode maiden.

She was a local, and kind of a hill-hippy recluse, who used to walk over to the first Ode shop in an old barn and hang out, from what I gathered. She never married, and died about 10 years ago or so.

regards,

stanger

stanger - Posted - 03/05/2018:  16:34:17

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I lusted for an Ode longneck. They were by far the coolest looking long necks. But alas, could not afford one as a teenager.

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That picture sure didn't hurt Ode sales any! 

Esta Clevinger actually wasn't as beautiful as she appears to be. I've seen others of her that were much less flattering.

That picture captured her best, and in some mysterious way, she is the epitome of the 'hip chick' of those times; she was kind of like Mary Travers, a girl other girls wanted to look like and all the boys wanted to date. Almost a hippy before there were any, but at the same time, a country girl who looked like she had real folk deal going on.

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stanger

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Here are some old Sing Out! ads from the sixties.  Sorry, you beat me to the Esta Clevevger one.  Did you get yours from Sing Out!?

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Nope. I first saw Esta on the back of the 1964 Ode catalog I ordered a banjo from. I also got an Epic banjo catalog at the same time, and I had a hard time deciding which one I would buy until I saw an Ode in person a couple of months later.

To this day I have never seen an Epic in person.

regards,

stanger

Helix - Posted - 09/24/2018:  18:17:04

Sorry, What? Great thread Harry, restart.

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