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gailg64 |
Playing Since: 1966
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Gender: Female
My Instruments:
Banjos: 2 by Nora Rogers: 1. Cherry 11 1/2 rim, - 2006;
2. Walnut, slothead 11 1/2 in. rim-2012;
3 & 4: two 1920s Gibsons, one RB-1& one RB-3 ball bearing
5. 1919 Fairbanks-Vega 5 string
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Walter Liggett (Humphrey Bate's Possum Hunters), Homer Davenport (Young & Davenport), A. C. Overton & Lauchlin Shaw, Wade Mainer, Sam & Kirk McGee, Omer Forester, WIll Keys, Jenkins family, Martin Marshall, Clarence Marshall, Posey Roach, China Poplin, George Pegram, Virgil Anderson, Morgan Sexton & Wade Ward, Dock Boggs & Charlie Poole. Clawhammer: Matokie Slaughter, Virgie Richardson, Bertie Dickens, Stella Kimble, Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, Kyle Creed, Roscoe Parish, Esker Hutchens
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Created 1/7/2007
Last Visit 9/4/2021
60s-70s recordings of Clarence Ashley & Watson Family, Roscoe Holcomb, Wade Ward, Carter Family, reissues of 78s. Late 60s-early 70s County LPs of Jenkins, Jarrell & Cockerham, Fuzzy Mt. LPs pointed the way to visiting & learning from elders. Last 20 years: 2 & old-time 3 finger banjo styles of TN, NC & VA. Love to play in string bands at fiddlers conventions, square dances, family & community occasions.
Newest Posts
'Jack Branch Fiddles ' 2 hrs
'Welcome Christmas' 4 hrs
'Tennessee Banjo' 6 hrs
'O Canada ' 7 hrs
