5/22/2023 0 Comments Banded Together by K.C. Burn![]() ![]() The music, which was made predominantly in the Deep South by African-Americans, lay dormant through the middle decades of the 20th Century until it was given a re-birth during the folk boom of the 1950s and ’60s through artists like John Sebastian’s Lovin’ Spoonful, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and the Grateful Dead.īut, for Kentuckian and San Diego resident Clinton Davis, exploring the history of the music of his home town in Louisville was as natural as walking out his front door to climb trees. If they didn’t have the money to buy guitars, mandolins, or banjos, they made them from cigar boxes, discarded pie plates, gourds, washtubs, and old whisky jugs. ![]() It came to us through whatever instruments the musicians of the streets and back alleys could conjure and create. In the era preceding World War II, especially during the 1920s and ’30s, much of the roots music of the day had been handed down from the years following the Civil War. It is like a comet with a great tail that pulls us into its fiery allure. Because music is a living thing, it challenges us to explore its soundscape, no matter where in history or geography it resides. The funny thing about music is that it doesn’t rest so well in history. ![]()
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