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Wiki isn't complete on this one, of course, but despite
the Irish claim to be such a 'musical people', slide guitar wasn't brought over
from Ireland. Slide guitar is traceable on many accounts to one-stringed
African instruments, and emerged in the US as far back as 1900 (as far as
academia is concerned). While there's little doubt that at times white
folks have filtered things in their own way, most likely we're talking about
violin/fiddle work when it comes to the drifting/stretching
fingering.
From: mark francombe
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: OT: old skool listening Does any one know? Maybe there is an underlying root from English Reels (could be Scottish maybe in origin) that crossed the water with the Irish sea workers (the Irish were for centuries the "workers" of the British Isles and built most of the trains/ships and buildings) and merge with country and blues? What of Bluegrass, hasnt that got a simerlar er.. tempo (out of depth here...) The somewhat country voice that the singer has (is that Tyminski) could easily be replaced with a dulcit West-country drawl from England, and be a very typical "country reel". I was often at barn dances as a kid, ( I even played in a Barn Dance Band once... The Scarecrows ha ha!) and this music really seems to have sunk in.... only to be squashed by Rock later in life... weird... something came back to me... have to check this out a bit... thanks for posting... hairs on back of neck standing to attention... Mark On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
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