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Diddlybo |
I should preface this little peice by stating that although my original stringed instrument was a five string banjo (schooled in the two fingered style), I am and have been a guitarist for going on 38 years now. My dad started me on banjo in a cabin in the mountains of northern Ga. We played old school mountain music. On a trip to new england a few years after, I was given a three quarter scale classical guitar. My dad taught me the basic triad chords and some flat picking technique and I was hooked. We played alot with other families and ourselves, I played country music in the school string band and even used to do a few numbers on banjo by myself at assemblies out in front of the rest of the band! I got turned on to the blues in my early twenties and have always loved playing them. Funny thing is a few years back a friend of mine who is actually into punk and hard rock stopped by with a couple of Hank Williams Sr. cd's for me. I remember listening to my dads Hank Sr. records with earphones on and strumming on a badminton rackett pretending I was in the band!! It didn't take long for me to start playing and singing that stuff and I'll be darned if I didn't sound just like I did back in the smokie's! I've been working on going back to my roots now for a while and I really do enjoy it. It's amazing how far away you can go from home only to get lost and end up stumpling down your own driveway.
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