In The Days Before The Uke

[Wooville]

Sorry about the low video quality on this one. I did a poor man's transfer from VHS tape to Digital camera, from a 30 year old combo tv. Doomed from the start. I did want to share some of this show from 20 years ago. Darry was at the top of his game before 5 strokes and time slowed that down. Roger was only a year on the fiddle, as he tutored young Clay on banjo. We could have been a pretty good band. I think that might have been our last gig. I guess we just couldn't handle all that success.

 

[Bill Sheehan]

So cool, Nelson! So, is that you on the bass fiddle? I notice that your tunes back then have that same nice sense of movement and swing that your current stuff has. Awesome!

 

[Wooville]

yep! That was me on a 4 string of another size. Thanks!!!!

 

[Oldscruggsfan]

Thank you for posting, Nelson! This takes me back to my early teens. Primarily for benefit shows, I occasionally filled in on banjo with two local friends who later joined two far better musicians to become Whitepath (so named for a Native American / Cherokee Nation chief).

My fiends’ dad (now in his late 80’s) was a tall, pencil thin fiddler who did a fabulous impersonation of String Bean. He taught me “Hot Corn, Cold Corn” and I went many years wondering what the heck a demijohn was.

 

[Wooville]

Thanks for watching!