Outlaw tunes, Folk Ya

[billycw]

3 string guitar(most likely homemade cigar box), This photo is dated 1891

Some newer stuff...

Bushy One String, sure you can argue this is not folk. But I'm going out on a limb and saying playing a 1 string guitar has folk/blues roots all over it dating back to the homemade 3 string cigar box guitars. Bushy is out of Jamaica.


Brushy One String - No Man Stop Me (Good Morning Mr.Sun)Brushy One String - No Man Stop Me (Good Morning Mr.Sun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF_UMRuEDcw

Brushy One String - War & Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJavdU5IYI

 

[billycw]

Tintype, Butcher 1875

A scene repeated in songs, writings and story telling throughout all of time... A English folk ballad dating to at least the early 17th century, Matty Groves. This song has some early versions including one which, the Lord, chops her head off and kicks it against the wall...

Doc Watson - Matty Groves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwOCf4My2o

 

[billycw]

Tintype of a minstrel-era string band (anonymous photographer), c. late 1860's, quarter plate, USA

One of the reasons I love folk is the story...

So Matty Groves is a English folk ballad dating at least early 1800's, its a pretty rough tail were anyway you slice it the lord gets screwed. Somewhere around Civil War time, early American singers are said to have riff'd off this dark english tune(matty grove) to make the American folk classic Shady Grove

Clarence Ashley - Shady Grove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwhtGZmROxM

 

[billycw]

Steps of 710 Ashbury - 1967

Jerry approved

Garcia and Grisman - SHADY GROVE -5-11-1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFX5L1Ithuc

 

[billycw]

And the story is still told... Kids sic

Shitty Groove - Deep in Cider (The Delousing Sessions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk9POQhndv0

 

[noyd666]

some good old time photos there billycw, like the stills.

 

[billycw]

Sheet music- "Crazy words Crazy tune" by Yellen & Ager 1927 art by Barbelle

Thanks Noyd, glad your tagging along. Love the old pictures myself & ever since that first moonshine show I've had the itch. Always wanted something to do with my stems, moonshine or paper is the best I can think of


Some more of that last guy shredding the ukulele...

How I feel about cannabis...
Cold Beer - Jesse Stewart (Deep in Cider)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEvQOPUHGH8

Jesse Stewart- Marauder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYG2f7LxxkM