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Tommy Thompson

Friday, July 7, 2023 @4:00:24 AM

As promised on this BHO thread . . . .

https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/391219/#4988172

Here are some references to stuff I wrote on Tommy Thompson’s creative arc through life:

“He Could Surely Make a Banjo Talk” - 109 Clawhammer Banjo Tabs of Old Time and New Time Tunes Played By Tommy Thompson. Text by Lew Stern and David Brooks. Bealeton, Virginia: Little Bear Banjo Publishing House, a subsidiary of Little Bear Banjo Enterprises, 2019.

eBook version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q3HWGFK

Paperback version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1093978821

Tommy Thompson’s Lyric Writing: Unpublished, Unrecorded Songs and Lyric Fragments. Bealeton, Virginia: Little Bear Banjo Publishing House, a subsidiary of Little Bear Banjo Enterprises, August 2019.

eBook version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W6HJPC8

Paperback version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1690862076

"The Play’s the Thing: Tommy Thompson and the “Last Songs” of

John Proffit and Charlie Poole." The North Carolina Folklore Journal. Vol. 65, Numbers 1-2. Winter-Spring and Summer - Fall 2018.

pp. 53 - 97.

"Tommy Thompson and Sam Shepard: A Speculation." The North Carolina Folklore Journal. Volume 64. 1-2. Winter-Spring and Summer-Fall 2017.

"Fretboard Forensics: The Pistol Packing Martin - The Mystery Behind Tommy Thompson's 000-28." Fretboard Journal. Number 45. Fall 2019. P. 118 - 121.

"Red Clay Revivalism." Kindle Direct Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087ZNPR2D

2 May 2020.

"Weapons of Choice: Dwight Diller and Tommy Thompson, Two Musicians and their Banjos." Prepared for the Banjo Gathering, Norfolk, Virginia, 25 October 2019.

THANKS for looking. Make great music,

Lew

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