Question: Who was Arnold Shultz? I’ll tell you the answer directly. First, some information about the attached mp3 of a 78 rpm record released by Columbia in 1946, featuring Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys. It is an up-tempo Blues number with a steady boogie rhythm. You will notice that the bass fiddle player […]
Boogie-Woogie is a piano rhythm style in 4/4 or common time which features a flowing bass line of eighth notes. This style was developed around the turn of the 20th century by African American piano players in the dance halls of northeast and southeast Texas. In those early days it was called “Fast Western” rhythm. […]
This old 78 rpm record, released in 1929, contains a roomful of guitar licks and rhythm played by two jazz guitarists, one black (Lonnie Johnson), the other white (Eddie Lang), but appearing as a black delta bluesman, “Blind Willie Dunn”. The thing to notice is that although this record contains a bunch of speeded up […]
I started to roll this project around in my feeble mind after watching the recent broadcast of the Ken Burns history of Country Music documentary. I thought that they got some things wrong, but many things I believe they got right. One of those things I thought they got right was that the two most […]
BIRMINGHAM RECORD COLLECTORS DEDICATED TO THE COLLECTING OF MUSIC, ITS PRESERVATION AND LASTING FRIENDSHIP MONTHLY MEETING THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13th, 2019 – 2:00 PM HOMEWOOD LIBRARY – 1721 OXMOOR ROAD 35209 NEXT MEETING SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 2019 THE SECOND SUNDAY THIS MONTH’S MEETING We will be playing some tunes at our meeting this month. Most […]