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Tom Smith |
1 comment on “Lester Armistead”
Tom Smith Says:
Saturday, May 3, 2014 @5:04:22 AM
I got to speak briefly with Lester at the Little Roy & Lizzy Music Festival, Elijah Clark State Park, Lincolnton Ga. Last year. Lester will be sorely missed.
Lester was described by the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band as:
“Lonesome” Lester Armistead is a shy and retiring retired printer now raising grandchildren on his farm in the Luton‘s District of middle Tennessee. He rarely speaks above a whisper until he uncorks his jug, gets a whiff of greasepaint and footlights, and releases his Force Five tenor voice in song. Lester and his late brother Jack performed extensively in Tennessee’s Davidson County environs as a country duet years ago. They grew up around the Acuff’s Smoky Mt. Boys, as their dad co-owned a bait store with Acuff’s fiddler Howdy Forrester. Lester learned to sing from Bashful Brother Oswald — on this all music scholars agree. When Lester sings, Oswald lives. Lester blows a jug that Os played on the Opry as long ago as 1939. Lester also picks a mean banjo. Mostly, Lester likes to laugh. When Marty Stuart asks, “Lester, how’s your jug?”, the invariable answer is ” ’bout half…”.
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