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Fiddle-playing showman Wills had moved the outfit from Tulsa, Okla., to the Los Angeles area in 1943, on his discharge from the Army, and for reasons affecting all big bands at the time -- economics and the rise of the solo singer -- reduced to a trumpet and sax the large horn section that had been augmenting his sound's jazzy stringband core.
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Type of music: We play a version of American stringband music, which has roots in traditional
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Yet they worked beautifully in an acoustic format, transposing to country stringband tunes so well you'd have sworn they were written that way.
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The Red Fox Chasers was a stringband quartet whose members lived in Allegheny, Wilkes and Surry counties.
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Admittedly, Springsteen fronts a bombastic bar band that plays arenas while Costello's latest incarnation is country stringband leader playing in bucolic outdoor settings -- but bear with me here.
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I've also gotten a lot of obscure material that represents the well from which Bill drew to develop Bluegrass: old stringband tunes, jugband tunes, blues.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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Restaurants in Sunnyside serve up Mămăligă (a Romanian dish of yellow maize, like Italian polenta) and Muzica Lautareasca preformed by local gypsy musicians, while the venerable Bohemian Hall in Queens provides Staropramen beer and wild stringband music for Czechs and Slovaks.
cafebabel.com 2009
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The Hot Seats (formerly Special Ed and the Shortbus) a local Richmond, Virginia stringband plays some Zappa covers.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I've also gotten a lot of obscure material that represents the well from which Bill drew to develop Bluegrass: old stringband tunes, jugband tunes, blues.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I've also gotten a lot of obscure material that represents the well from which Bill drew to develop Bluegrass: old stringband tunes, jugband tunes, blues.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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