We regularly check in with Bill Ferris, one of this country's most outstanding folklorists. Today, Dick Gordon talks with Bill about the "single strand" instruments that led the way to the blues that we know today. Bill was in rural Mississippi with a tape recorder in the 1970s, when for the first time in his life he heard a single strand of wire being played as a musical instrument. The wire was fixed to the side of a wooden shack, and played with a bottle... http://thestory.org/
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We regularly check in with Bill Ferris, one of this country's most outstanding folklorists. Today, Dick Gordon talks with Bill about the "single strand" instruments that led the way to the blues that we know today. Bill was in rural Mississippi with a tape recorder in the 1970s, when for the first time in his life he heard a single strand of wire being played as a musical instrument. The wire was fixed to the side of a wooden shack, and played with a bottle.- Find out more about Bill and his book "Give My Poor Heart Ease"
- Visit the Center for the Study of the American South
- Peruse the Curriculum in Folklore
- See a list of songs Bill and Dick listened to
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Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.
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Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoffart.com/
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
