![]() Four or five have accompanying banjo tab one or two have guitar tab. Rosenbaum has collected from each performer a few sample songs, including standard musical notation and lyrics (most of the pieces are vocal). ![]() The introduction to each performer is based around interviews and conversations, and Rosenbaum works in a little historical background. And then Howard Finster, who is a genre unto himself. There is a nice mix of black and white performers, religious and secular, guitar and banjo, folksong and blues, well-known and obscure. The book features stories and interviews with about twenty musicians (individuals or groups). It’s nice to see a collection like this specifically focused on Georgia. I feel like Georgia is under-represented in the body of collected Appalachian music - more effort has been put into Tennessee, North Carolina, and the Virginias. ![]() “Excellent stories and song samples: Rosenbaum has a reputation as a musician, artist, and collector of traditional music, especially in Georgia. ![]()
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