I met Kenny back in my early days in California ... a thoroughly sweet guy. Being blind, his first notion of how to play mandolin was up under his chin like a fiddle, using a pizzicato motion, which was probably the beginning of his unorthodox style. Now though he sets his taterbug on his knee. The OTH article probably covers his Sweetsmill Stringband (1970s) days. Much of that material has been reissued on CD, maybe on Bay, which did the original LPs. Kenny also did a solo album on Philo, which at one point I had memorized. I haven't seen that out on CD, but if anyone is interested, I'll digitize some of it when I'm home in Vermont in summer for anyone interested. Really worth a listen. Glad Kenny's getting his due among mandolin players. He's an original.
On Feb 26, 4:37 pm, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jake. Glad to have you speak up. > Kenny is a great player. It's amazing to watch Kenny do what he does > his unorthodox style. Just goes to show, if you've got music in you, > it's got to come out someway. Have you seen the YouTube videos? Easy > to find. > > Taterbug > > On Feb 26, 12:09 pm, JakeyLee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been lurking in the shadows here for a while, but found something > > I'd thought I'd share. I noticed through searching that ya'll've > > discussed the Kenny Hall youtube videos. Well the Old Time Herald had > > a nice article on Kenny that they've posted in its entirety on their > > website. > > >http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-7/7-4/kenny-h... > > > I haven't seen the Kenny Hall Mel Bay book mentioned in there, but I'd > > like to. > > > Cheers everyone, I've been enjoying the discussions. > > > Jake --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
