More welcome notes from Tony Thomas

The Bluegrass Ireland Blog · 12 months ago · 57 views

BIB editor's note: Thanks again to banjo historian Tony Thomas for his additional notes below on the 2020 BIB post 'Alan Lomax, the banjo, and bluegrass (CORRECTION):' Just want to underline my comments about Stu are based on not only my extensive research, but on the last years of Stu's life in the 2000s. I knew Stu when he moved to Florida. He was increasingly restricted by his final illness for years, but I had hours and hours of telephone conversations with Stu over the last several years of his life about banjo issues, especially about Gribble, Lusk and York, and more recently I have been working with the Gribble Lusk and York website. I just returned from the US old-time festival Fiddle Hell, where I played banjo representing Murph Gribble's style in two workshops, one on Gribble Lusk and York tunes to be played in G tuning and on tunes that can be played in D.