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Martin Barre on Jethro Tull and vintage guitars

Video    Guitarist    16 October 2015

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4l1yacWPtA

Buddy Emmons

when he was a member of Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours.

Photograph: Elmer Williams

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum,

via Getty Images

Buddy Emmons, Virtuoso of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 78

NYT

AUG. 1, 201

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/
arts/music/buddy-emmons-virtuoso-of-the-steel-guitar-dies-at-78.html

Manny’s Music in Manhattan > gear, equipment        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/
nyregion/henry-goldrich-dead.html

guitar        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2023/oct/25/
johnny-marr-guitars-in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=a4l1yacWPtA - 16 October 2015

guitar        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/
nyregion/henry-goldrich-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/
615266956/first-listen-marisa-anderson-cloud-corner

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/nyregion/
guitar-hero-les-pauls-groundbreaking-model-to-be-auctioned.html

guitar effects        USA

https://www.npr.org/2014/12/13/
370361269/voices-within-the-music-a-brief-history-of-guitar-effects

Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss)        USA    1915-2009

guitarist and inventor

https://www.theguardian.com/music/les-paul

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/13/
obituary-les-paul

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2015/jan/08/
les-paul-guitar-chuck-berry-spinal-tap-sex-pistols

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/08/
black-beauty-les-paul-original-gibson-up-for-auction

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/13/
obituary-les-paul

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/13/
les-paul-dies-guitar-inventor

acoustic guitar        USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/27/
950648546/tony-rice-a-giant-of-the-acoustic-guitar-dead-at-69

dobro

acoustic guitar

with a metal resonator

built into its body.

This resonator

serves as an amplifier.

In contrast to acoustic guitars,

the placement of the resonator

takes place of the sound hole.

Therefore

the shape of the guitar

doesn’t tend to have an affect

on how the dobro’s sound

is amplified.

https://www.liveabout.com/dobro-1322533

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/
arts/music/mike-auldridge-dies-at-73-lent-dobro-fresh-elegance.html

guitar riff        UK / USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/01/11/
577347038/fast-eddie-clarke-guitarist-behind-classic-mot-rheads-riffs-
dies-at-67

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/07/
the-rolling-stones-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/may/03/
rip-slayers-jeff-hanneman

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/
arts/music/mickey-baker-guitarist-whose-riffs-echo-today-dies-at-87.html

guitarist        UK / USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/
957258040/sylvain-sylvain-new-york-dolls-guitarist-dies-at-69

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/
615266956/first-listen-marisa-anderson-cloud-corner

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/27/
jj-cale-singer-songwriter-dies

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/
arts/music/mickey-baker-guitarist-whose-riffs-echo-today-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/nyregion/
cornell-dupree-studio-guitarist-is-dead-at-68.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/30/
rolling-stones-ronnie-wood-sony-radio-award

hard-rock guitarist        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/
arts/music/ronnie-montrose-hard-rock-guitarist-dies-at-64.html

pedal steel guitar        USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/07/
793989801/the-endless-potential-of-the-pedal-steel-guitar-an-odd-duck-by-any-measure

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/
arts/music/buddy-emmons-virtuoso-of-the-steel-guitar-dies-at-78.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/
arts/music/ralph-mooney-master-of-the-steel-guitar-dies-at-82.html

bass        USA

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/28/
457384082/metallicas-robert-trujillo-on-his-hero-jaco-pastorius

on bass

bassist        UK / USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/
arts/music/richard-davis-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/06/
pino-palladino-pop-greatest-bassist-adele-elton-the-who

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/
arts/music/duck-dunn-bassist-in-booker-t-and-the-mgs-dies-at-70.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/21/
gerard-smith-tv-radio-dies

bass guitarist        UK / USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/
arts/music/lee-dorman-bass-guitarist-for-iron-butterfly-dies-at-70.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/19/
michael-davis-mc5

funk bassist        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/
obituaries/michael-henderson-dead.html

bassline        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/03/
how-we-made-stand-by-me

guitar amplifiers

Jim Marshall, creator of the Marshall amp / the Father of Loud    UK    1923-2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/10/
jim-marshall-father-loud

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/
arts/music/jim-marshall-88-maker-of-famed-fuzzy-amplifiers-is-dead.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/apr/05/
jim-marshall

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2012/apr/06/
jim-marshall-amplifiers-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/05/
jim-marshall-amp-dies-88

fiddle player        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/
arts/music/joe-thompson-dies-at-93-fiddler-of-string-band-legacy.html

bluegrass fiddle        USA
 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/
arts/music/byron-berline-dead.html

ukulele        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/
arts/music/eddie-kamae-dead-hawaiian-musician.html

harpejji        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/16/
if-stevie-wonder-wants-to-play-it-pay-attention-
how-a-bizarre-new-instrument-found-unusual-success

banjo        USA

Contemporary audiences

still tend to associate the banjo

with white Southern traditions of bluegrass,

old-time and what record labels

used to market as hillbilly music,

but its roots are in Africa, in stringed instruments

like the akonting, the buchundu and the ngoni.

During the 19th century,

the banjo became inextricably linked to minstrelsy:

variety shows in which white performers

(and, increasingly after the Civil War, Black performers)

“blacked up,” grotesquely caricaturing Black facial features.

The minstrel show,

which persisted onstage and onscreen

well into the 20th century,

accounts for the banjo’s conflicted legacy

— both part of the visual vocabulary of white supremacy

and a point of creative contact

between Black and white musicians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/
t-magazine/black-folk-musicians.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/04/05/
1242304226/beyonce-texas-hold-em-banjo-carter-country

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/
t-magazine/black-folk-musicians.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/22/
604356508/how-rhiannon-giddens-reconstructs-black-pain-with-the-banjo

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/14/
543438908/stephen-wade-goes-across-the-amerikee-
with-historical-banjo-and-guitar-music 

saxophonist        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/
obituaries/ralph-carney-saxophonist-for-tom-waits-and-many-others-dies-at-61.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/
arts/music/herbert-hardesty-dead-fats-domino-saxophonist.html

drummer        UK / USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/
obituaries/jon-hiseman-73-drummer-who-melded-rock-jazz-and-blues-dies.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/
arts/music/scott-asheton-drummer-in-the-stooges-dies-at-64.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/
arts/music/ed-cassidy-drummer-for-the-experimental-group-spirit-dies-at-89.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/19/
levon-helm

on the drums

pop percussionist        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/
arts/music/ralph-macdonald-pop-percussionist-dies-at-67.html

accordion        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/
arts/music/milton-delugg-accordionist-composer-and-tonight-show-bandleader-
dies-at-96.html 

accordionist        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/
arts/music/milton-delugg-accordionist-composer-and-tonight-show-bandleader-
dies-at-96.html 

multi-instrumentalist        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/
arts/music/jj-cale-musician-and-songwriter-dies-at-74.html

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June 22, 1953

The brass band world

loses a leading light

From The Guardian archive

Monday June 22, 1953

Guardian

Mr Fred Mortimer, who conducted Foden's Motor Works Band in all its major successes during the past 27 years, including eight of the nine occasions on which it won the national championship, died at his home in Elworth, Sandbach, on Saturday night. He was 73.

Mr Mortimer, who was born at Hebden Bridge, estimated that he had broadcast with Foden's Band on 250 occasions. He became a bandmaster at the age of 20 and was an active conductor until a few months ago, when he became ill.

J. H. E. writes: The death of Fred Mortimer deprives the brass-band world of one of its best-known personalities. A modest and friendly man, quite unspoiled by a run of successes unique in band history, he was known to hosts of enthusiasts in this country and abroad.

He devoted the greater part of his life to the band movement and was much in demand as an adjudicator at contests and as a professional coach.

He will best be remembered, however, as conductor of Foden's Band during the most brilliant years of its career. There was nothing spectacular about his own contributions to its public performances, during which he was characteristically self-effacing.

His unobtrusive and straightforward manner of conducting, which contained nothing to cause remark save that it was left-handed, may have deluded some onlookers into underestimating his capacity. One had to observe Mortimer in the bandroom to realise with what patience, tact and skill the performances had been prepared.

Mortimer was bandmaster when Foden's Band won the Belle Vue championship on three successive occasions during the 1920s, conducted by a famous professional coach, the late William Halliwell. But when the band accomplished the far greater feat of recording two hat tricks at the national band festivals during the 1930s, Mortimer conducted the winning performances himself.

The policy of the organisers of the contests confronted bandmasters with new and challenging demands. That Mortimer won so consistently during the 1930s when special test pieces were being written by Elgar, Ireland, Bantock, Bliss, and others, is sufficient indication of the breadth of his musical accomplishment.

In 1936 he and the band were invited to represent English brass-band music at the Government Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg, and a South African tour was carried out with success.

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June 22, 1953 >
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