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Dom Flemons headlines Jubilee 2016!
The National Jug Band Jubilee is very excited to announce that Dom Flemons will be headlining this year’s Jubilee on Saturday, September 17th! It’s a homecoming of sorts as Dom was at the 2006 & 2007 Jubilee with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We are very happy to have him back! http://www.domflemons.com/
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"Twenty years later, the Kentuckian (LOUISVILLIAN) Sylvester Weaver, about whom little is known, showed up in New York and made the first recordings to feature slide guitar, a couple of melancholy numbers called “Guitar Rag” and “Guitar Blues.” Okeh Records marketed him as “the man with the talking guitar.” Handy’s account and Weaver’s recordings were the first to capture a style that later developed through the music of Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters, and so on. Over the course of a century, the sound of this peculiar instrument has helped define the music we call blues." You can visit the Louisville Cemetery on Poplar Level Road in Louisville and pay your respects to Sylvester! Front and back of his upgraded headstone are pictured below.
TONIGHT at Highland Tap Room, the Steel City Jug Slammers are playing at 10:00pm with a special guest washboard player RC Hampton - then TOMORROW join the Jug Slammers for happy hour at the Flea Off Market from 4:30-6:00pm followed by Appalatin at 7:00!
"Twenty years later, the Kentuckian (LOUISVILLIAN) Sylvester Weaver, about whom little is known, showed up in New York and made the first recordings to feature slide guitar, a couple of melancholy numbers called “Guitar Rag” and “Guitar Blues.” Okeh Records marketed him as “the man with the talking guitar.” Handy’s account and Weaver’s recordings were the first to capture a style that later developed through the music of Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters, and so on. Over the course of a century, the sound of this peculiar instrument has helped define the music we call blues." You can visit the Louisville Cemetery on Poplar Level Road in Louisville and pay your respects to Sylvester! Front and back of his upgraded headstone are pictured below.
TONIGHT at Highland Tap Room, the Steel City Jug Slammers are playing at 10:00pm with a special guest washboard player RC Hampton - then TOMORROW join the Jug Slammers for happy hour at the Flea Off Market from 4:30-6:00pm followed by Appalatin at 7:00!
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