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Tony Thomas banjo, blues, and folk

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Old Virginia Blues
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Old Virginia Blues
Released: Oct 14, 2006
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  • Genre: Bluegrass / Blues / Folk

    Location Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, US

    Profile Views: 30623

    Last Login: 11/17/2010

    Member Since 10/14/2006

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  • Bio

    ....Born NYC, raised Hartford ..Ct..  ..I.. have lived ..Iin.. DC, NYC, SF, Oakland, Atlanta, and.., Seattle. In the last 25 years I have lived in Homestead, ..Opa.. ..Locka.. and, North Miami ..Beach ,.. Sunny Isles Beach Florida... .... Outside of music..,..  ..since.. the 1960s I have been an..  ..activist in the antiwar, ,civil rights, Black power,..  ..and disability rights movements,..  ..a member, leader, and now supporter of the Socialist..  ..Workers Party, and a published writer of political journalism, literary criticism, literary short stories, and literary poetry. .. .... I am a member of Transit Workers Union. Local 291 at Metrobus in Miami/, and a volunteer worker for ..< PathfinderPress ...... .... Since 1999, I have been an adjunct professor of English at the North Campus of Miami Dade College. I invite all my past and current students to friend me... ....I began singing traditional folk music, blues, and singer songwriter tunes in folk clubs in Hartford in the early 1960s...  ..I returned to the live music scene in 1999, playing at Folk and Blues venues in the Miami and Fort ..Lauderdale..  ..including.. the ..Luna Star Cafe..,..  ..the Fort Lauderdale Blues Festival, the Florida Fiddlers Convention, among other venues.,/p> ....I have performed and recorded with the Ebony Hillbillies of New York ..City..  ..I.. helped organize the celebrated on-line music group ..Black Banjo Then and Now.. and organized the ..2005 Black Banjo Then and Now Gathering.. at Appalachian State College in Boone, North Carolina...  .... .... I have taught at the Blue Ridge Old Time Music Week ..at..  ..Mars.. Hill College in..  ..Mars Hill, North Carolina...  ..And my presentations on African American banjo history have featured at the annual Banjo Collectors Gatherings and I have chapters on African American banjo history forth coming in anthologies on Blacks and Country music and the five-string banjo from university presses...  .... .... I sing and play guitar, five-string banjo, ..and..  ..awful.. fiddle. With my research writing, I do not have time to do as many gigs as I used to do, but I am always looking for someone in the Miami Area to play OTM with...... .. .... .... .. .. ..

  • Members

    ......On guitar:...... I play a Martin D-M acoustic guitar, a fine Johnson Carolina II which is a Greg Rich solid rosewood guitar very much like a Martin 000-..28EC.. .... ..and.. my beloved 1978 Ibanez Jazz ..Arist.. electric. .. ....I..  .. play two.. and three ..fingerstyle.., thumb pick lead, and flat pick blues, old timey,..  ..country, and .. ..folksinger styles ......... ......On Banjo: ........ ...... ..I.. play a variety of down picking and up picking and pseudo -Bluegrass styles on an 1894 Fairbanks Electric, a Gold Tone Whyte Lady, a no name fretless banjo .. ..and a Goodtime RB......... ....I honor my African one-string fiddle, my Bulgarian violin, and my collection ..of..  ..Florida.. and Guatemala native American Flutes by not playing them before the public. ........ .... .... .... .... .. .. ..

  • Influences

    ....1960s Connecticut and Mass old time music ....heros.... and pals:........ ....George Dennis Clifford, Charlie Irwin, Doug ..Dorschug..,..  ..& Terry/Steve ..Wiznetsky.. aka Wish, and my old partner Dick ..Feigi.. RIP... ....Mentors in Music its History .. .... John Work III, Wilma Dunaway, David Evans Kerry Blech, Eugenia Cecilia Conway, GEORGE R. GIBSON, Robert Winans.. .... Banjo Savants .. .... Bob Carlin, Dr. Laurent Dubois, .. ..Allen Feldman, .. ..Ed Britt, Peter Szego, Shlomo Petscoe, Greg Adams .. ..Ulf Jagfors, Jim ..Bollman.., .. ....Musicians, Musicians, Musicians and Singers ..banjoists :.... ......Algia Mae Hinton and MR. JOE THOMPSON.......... Otis Taylor, Corey Harris, Don Vappie, Taj Mahal. Clif Ervin RIP, Daniel Jatta, Sule Greg Wilson, Rique Prince, Dave Colvin, Norris Bennett, Gloria Thomas Gassaway, Don Vappie, .. ....Gus..  ..Cannon, .. ..Dink Roberts, Josh Thomas, Uncle Homer Walker, .. ..Odell Thompson, Rufus Kasey, Dock Boggs, Lucius Smith,..  ..Gus Cannon, .. ..Johnny St. Cyr, Danny Barker, Budd Scott, Josh White, Ikey Robinson,..  ..Sam “ Lightning “ Hopkins,..  ..Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, Leroy Carr, Tampa Red, Big Maceo, Scrapper Blackwell, Leadbelly, Leadbelly, Leadbelly, John Lee Hooker, Swan ..Silvertones.., Golden Gate Singers, ..Mahalia.. Jackson, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, Guitar Slim, John Pete Williams,..  ..Robert Johnson, Taj Mahal, Howard Armstrong, Yank Rachel, John Estes, Ferry Lewis, Bukka White, Son Sims, Johnny Shines, ELMORE JAMES, CHESTER BURNETT AKA HOWLING WOLFE, Jimmie Cotton, Junior Wells, Big Joe Williams, Howard Armstrong, Carl Martin, Virgil Anderson.. ........COUNT..  ..BASIE.................... ......LESTER YOUNG.......... .... .... ......LOUIS ..ARMSTRONG.. .................. ....Claude Williams Lionel Hampton, Chu Berry,..  ..Jimmy Rushing, , Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Pete Johnson, JAY MCSHANN, Jimmie Witherspoon, Big Joe Turner,..  ..Jimmie ..Lunceford.., Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Lawrence Brown, ..Sy.. Oliver, Slim Gaillard, Teddy Wilson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Pete Johnson, Sammy Price, Meade ..Lux.. Lewis, Charlie Christian, Buck Clayton, Herschel Evans, Walter Page, Joe Jones, Freddie Green, Stuff Smith, Claude Williams, Eddie Durham, Fats Waller, Mildred Bailey, Artie Shaw, Jack Teagarden, Jay McShann, Charles Parker.. ....Blind Alfred Reed,..  ..Fruit Jar Drinkers, Arthur Smith ..Trio,Rufus.. Crisp, Tommy Jarrell, Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Charlie Poole, Doc Roberts, Roy Harvey,..  ..Grandpa Jones, FRANK HUTCHISON, PLEASANT CARTER, MAYBELLE CARTER, SARA CARTER, LESLIE RIDDLE .. ..Hilary ..Durlam..,..  ..Harry ..Saposnick.., Paul Brown, Allen Hart, Scott O’Dell, Ralph ..Rinzler.., Tom Paley, John Cohen, Mike Seeger, Tracy Swartz Alice..  ..Gerard,..  ..Gail ..Gillespie,Bob.. ..Yellin.., John Herald, Ralph ..Rinzler.., Eric ..Weissberg.., .. ....Pete Peterson, Walt ..Koken.., Paul Brown, Allen Hart, Alice Gerard, Kerry Blech, Kerry Blech, Kerry Blech, ..  ..Woody Guthrie, Jack Eliot,..  ..Jimmie Rogers,..  ..Buddy Guy, Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Alton and Raeburn ..Delmore.., Hazel Dickens,..  ..Eddie ..Adcocks.., Charlie Waller. Stu Jamison.. ....JIM ROB WILLS........ ....Teddy Adams, Jesse ..Ashlock.., Lester Barnard Jr., Bobby ..Boatright.., Noel Boggs, Billy Bowman, Alex Brashear, Billy Briggs,..  ....Moes.. ..Billington.., Keith Coleman, Gene ..Crownover.., , Tommy Duncan, Joe Ferguson, Gene Gassaway, Johnny ..Gimble.., Cameron Hill, Joe Holley, Sleepy Johnson, Millard Kelso, Tag Lambert, Leon McAuliffe, Tiny Moore, Tiny Mott,..  ..Leon Rausch, Herb Remington, Glen ..hees.., Eldon ..Shamblin.., Al ..Stickland.., Louie Tierney, ..Mancel.. Tierney, , Billy Jack Wills, Johnnie Lee Wills, Luke Wills, and Jimmy ..Wyble..., ..Joacquim.. Murphy,..  ..Cindy Walker, Asleep at the Wheel,..  ..Milton Brown, Papa Calhoun, Derwood Brown, ROSE MADDOX, Cliff Bruner, Smokey Woods,..  ..J.R...  .."Chat the Cat" ..Chatwell.., Homer and ..Jethro.., Emmett Miller,..  .... ....JERRY LEE LEWIS..,.. ....MOON MULLIGAN, JERRY LEE LEWIS,..  ..CARL PERKINS, SCOTTY MOORE, MERLE HAGGARD, JIMMIE BURTON, No Show Jones, Hank ..Wiliams.. I,..  ..Hank Williams II, Rosie Perez, Jimmy Bryant,..  .... ..Hank Snow,..  ..Lee..  ..Moore- the Coffee Drinking Nighthawk.. ....SamudinoFreddy Fender, Little Joe y La ..Familia.., ..Flaco.. Jimenez, Los ..Tigres.. ..del.. Norte .. ....>Ray Charles, Antoine Domino, Aretha Franklin,..  ..Otis Redding, the Rev. Richard Penniman, .. ..Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan,..  ..Ruth Brown, Charles Brown, Chuck Berry.. ....Jimmie Hendricks, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, John Hammond Jr., IAN TYSON..,..  ..IAN.. AND SYLVIA, Leon Redbone, Tom Rush, Steve Gillette.. ....Al The Sheik Reyes,..  ..Raeford Starke, Marie ..Nofsinger.., Colin Denny, Bob Murphy, Larry ..Chrismond.., Mathew Sabatella, Deepwater,..  ....Mojo.. Willie, Willie Coleman,..  ..Valerie C. ..Wizecracker..,..  .... ..Robert Hatch, Lou Dominguez,..  ..Grant Livingston,..  ..Collin Denny, Raeford Starke, Marie ..Nofsinger.... ....Special thanks again to Terry who became Steve Wish being the first musician I met the first time I dare to take my first guitar out of the house!........ .... .... .. .. ..

  • Sounds Like

    ....Tony Thomas, mixes Black banjo, lack blues, old time music, Jimmie Rogers, Jack Elliot, Josh White, Lonnie Johnson, Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, Jimmy Rushing, Thomas Elmer Duncan, Lee Moore, Hazel & Alice, John Lee Hooker, Bob Dylan, Charlie Poole, John Hurt, Mike Seeger, and even one Frank Sinatra tune. He can do all old time, all banjo, all blues, or all acoustic country, all folk, but mostly all funky, rootsy, and uncommercial music. .. .... He is also a major expert on the history and traditions of Black secular folk music, especially the banjo and the blues. .. .... In recent years he has become a snappy dresser!..

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