Back in Business!

http://frobbi.org/picking.html

Thanks everyone!

Fred

Fred,

Your site is amazing. Thank you for all your time and effort. Had a 4+ hour drive yesterday so I queued  up a few live shows and off I went. A truly wonderful site. Thank you for all you do... 

James

Reminder: Take a Fresh Look at My Recordings

I just took a look and found I have over 2,300 MP3s!

Many are single songs, but a good number are multi-song and complete sets.

So, now that I have unlimited download, please take a fresh look and some
time to go through the selections, especially the Collections. For example,
the Landreth Collection has 115 MP3s and the Ivor Trueman Collection has 1,900!

Start at http://frobbi.org/picking.html

And search for your favorite artist, song or instrument at http://frobbi.org/pickingsearch.html
The latter feature works pretty well, but I'll be making it better.

I welcome you to download and provide directions how to do it..

So please dive in and enjoy yourself.

Fred



 

Here's an historic video I was thrilled and honored to shoot.

Bill Keith played Devil's Dream with banjoist Ron Cody's young son Jonny, almost exactly 50 years after Bill performed it with Monroe!

(Bill talks about it at the end.)

Another gem recorded from the BBC by Chris Wing and digitized by Ivor Trueman...

http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Stanley-1994/index.html

Ivor says...

I guess this'd be significant as it's presumably either one of the last gigs where Ralph played all the banjo or one of the first with Steve Sparkman?
It's mentioned that Ralph was in a wheelchair - but there's no mention of Steve Sparkman.

I'm proud to have contributed to this video production that was shown at the IBMA this week.

Thanks to all my fellow media volunteers who contributed, especially good friend and 
Grey Fox Media Crew Chief Steve Ide for putting it all together!

Fred, thanks your site is awesome!!

Here's some pretty banjo picking I was fortunate to capture - of one of my favorite tunes...

Nice pickin'... 

I'm thrilled to share with you a recording from longtime friend Robert Pool. Robert (bass) and
another longtime friend, Tim Duran (mandolin) [both with the Arm Bros. when I met them in the early 1970s],
along with Tommy Boyd (banjo), were onstage with Larry Sparks at the Delaware PA, Festival in 1976.
According to Robert, the recording, by Jim Baldwin (now deceased), has never been heard until now.

Listen to Larry Sparks 1976 

 

Another treasure has arrived, thanks to Ivor Trueman...
Videos of three complete sets from Ralph Stanley's visit to the
UK's Edale Festival in 1991, Ralph's first appearance in the UK since
the Stanley Brothers played in London 1966. There are also some photos
by Barry Lane and Chris Wing.

It's all here: http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Stanley-1991/index.html

Another treat from Ivor Trueman...Alison Krauss & Union Station in the UK 1992...

http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Krauss-1992/index.html

Hi Folks,

Here's hoping you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and/or Chanukah and the tryptophan has begun to dissipate.

I'm honored and thrilled (again!) to announce a new phase in my good fortune of sharing history with you...
The Doc Hamilton Photo Collection!

http://frobbi.org/slides/hamilton/index.html

My thanks to Doc for his offer allowing me to share these with you.
He tells me more will be coming next week; so stay tuned!

All the best!
Fred 

Today Doc added Benny Thomasson and the Goins Brothers.

http://frobbi.org/slides/hamilton/index.html

Doc just keeps the photos coming!

Today's offering: Jim & Jesse and Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass

http://frobbi.org/slides/hamilton/index.html

Man, these pictures film me for yearning for a time that was not my own. The Jim & Jesse picture in particular are spectacular. Thanks!

Doc has "dumped" so many more albums on me since the last announcement I can't remember which ones.
So please help yourself (again) and take a look...

http://frobbi.org/slides/hamilton/index.html
 

I've "discovered" a few more old cassettes.

For this first one, I'm turning the tables on Doc Hamilton, who's been providing all those
wonderful photos http://frobbi.org/slides/hamilton/index.html

This time, Doc's in one of my recordings and my photos!

Buck White & The Down Home Folks, Berkshire 1978​

http://frobbi.org/audio/buckwhiteberkshire78.html

Thanks to Robert Pool, former bass player of the Arm Bros, friends of mine from the 1970s in Poughkeepsie,
I have some more photos from that era.

The entire project, with recordings, photos and member list is at http://frobbi.org/audio/armbros/index.html

The new collection is at http://frobbi.org/audio/armbros/morephotos/index.html

Time for my holiday greeting...

In my recent "discoveries" are the two sets by California from Winterhawk 1992.

My only regret is that there was a lot of talking around my mics.
I wish I'd had one of those tall poles to isolate the mics from the "riff-raff".
I still wanted to share the music with you.

http://frobbi.org/audio/californiawinterhawk.html
 

P.S. 1992 Winterhawk was the same year as a fiddle workshop by Byron Berline and Vassar Clements...

http://frobbi.org/audio/byronvassarworkshop.html

One more "discovery" cassette....for now.

John Hartford, Culpeper 1973

http://frobbi.org/audio/hartfordculpeper73.html

Here's another surprise jam I happened on last summer.
That's Special Consensus' mandolin player Rick Faris on guitar.

Here's the first song of the last performance of the 
Jim Kweskin Jug Band 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour...

(Remember, that's Bill Keith on banjo!)