RE: [dcab-l] Re: Banjo Picker Bill Blackburn

Thanks, Tom;  Bill was not only a good picker, but

a friendly gentleman. 

 

I'll take your info and see if I can make a contact

with him.

 

Thanks again

ed

 

From: dcab-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:dcab-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Gray
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 9:44 PM
To: DCAB-L <dcab-l@googlegroups.com>
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Subject: [dcab-l] Re: Banjo Picker Bill Blackburn

 

Bill Blackburn moved to Arizona years ago, was playing banjo in a band called Sagegrass.  He might still be in Sagegrass. I last saw him in Arizona in 2011 at the Benson BG festival, used to see him some years at IBMA.  He was a high school friend of John Duffey.  Together, they played with Lucky Chapman and the Ozark Mountain Boys, out of Frederick MD.  I still have the 45 rpm record they made about 1956.  The songs are "I've Waited So Long" and "Blue Grass", an instrumental written by John Duffey.

Tom Gray

On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 11:21:29 AM UTC-4, Ed Schaeffer wrote:

25 years ago I happened to meet a banjo picker named Bill Blackburn;

we picked some, and he happened to mention that actually he was a

"notable" figure in the early DC bluegrass scene. I haven't seen him since.

 

I recently re-read the liner notes (9 pages!) in Buzz Busby's CD

"Going Home", and, sure enough, there was Bill Blackburn playing

bass on a cut (or two).

 

Anyone know what happened to banjoist Bill Blackburn?

 

Ed Schaeffer

Musician and Raconteur

 

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