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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 5 Jan 2010 11:42 am |
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Good find, Jussi; I guess Deke is digging into the archives. Do you know the title of that film in the first section?
This first picture is from 1955, with Freddie Powers.
I show him as playing on these records. Can you confirm? I have these tracks on Bear CD, but they are buried in storage.
Andy Starr: Dig Them Squeaky Shoes
Buck Griffin: One Day After Payday
The New Blockbusters: Rock and Roll Guitar, Part 1
The Velvatones: Real Gone Baby (Meteor) |
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Howard Kalish
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Austin, Tx USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2010 5:49 pm
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That’s a wild clip and great pictures. I sent the picture to Freddy Powers, who I just saw on New Year’s Day. He says he doesn’t have that suit anymore.
I got see Paul Buskirk play about 25 years ago with Freddy and Johnny Gimble right around the time they did the Somewhere Over the Rainbow record with Willie Nelson. That was a fantastic show out by the lake with hardly no people there. Paul was tearing it up and Johnny was sublime. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 6 Jan 2010 2:00 am
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| Mitch, I don't know if it's Paul playing on those records, could very well be. Do you have that LP with Paul on the cover with the Harvey guitar. I guess I should try to find it. Deke, btw, has that guiar now and he had it completely restored. It looks incredible now and plays and sounds fine. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 6 Jan 2010 10:09 am
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Jussi:
I don't have any Buskirk LPs, but think there are 2 or 3 out there. I ran into the info on that New Blockbusters record maybe a year ago when I accidentally ran across a web site interview with an obscure Texas based musician who was also on the session. Can't remember his name. Buskirk supposedly plays mandolin on the Starr and Griffin recordings and guitar on the other two. |
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c c johnson
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killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Jan 2010 10:28 am
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| I have an album with Paul playing steel on Adv in Paradise. Did fine job. Lota of verb. cc |
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 7 Jan 2010 6:25 pm
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Re Paul Buskirk, I have the following information from a friend:
"Paul Buskirk is a lesser known country picker.
I have a vinyl album with him as the leader where he plays the electric mandolin, somewhat in the style of Tiny Moore. The album is called " Hot Pickin' ", Stoneway Records STY-153"
George
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jan 2010 10:58 am
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| i've got an old album buried somewhere...i think it was shot jackson, dave musgrave, paul buskirk...maybe it was a sho-bud promotional attempt. great pickin' by all. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 8 Jan 2010 11:10 am
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jan 2010 11:24 am
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| yeah thnx...that's it. buskirk really impressed me back then. i think the cover had kind of a hot pink border. back (early 70ish) then i saw dave musgrave do a sho-bud demo at a local store (the vox room...run by the wonderful dick rossi) and he blew my mind. there was a solid white professional there that had been made for some show..i ended up buying it used a year or two later and watched it yellow for ten years...it was a great steel. |
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Deke Dickerson
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California, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2010 1:09 am
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Glad you all liked the Buskirk clip on youtube. Paul Buskirk was really one of the very best pickers we've ever had.
If you want to feel your jaw hit the floor or your legs to go numb, go up and look at the picture of Buskirk holding the "Strat." Notice anything weird about it?
Well, that is a 5-string mandola "Strat" neck that Paul Bigsby made for Buskirk to put on his Strat body. It's got a rosewood fingerboard a couple years before Leo ever put a rosewood fingerboard on a Fender. It's got a 5-string Fender-shaped headstock and it about a 19-20" scale (mandola).
Where is the guitar? Paul Buskirk's good friend Huey Wilkinson said that Paul decided he didn't like the Mandola-caster one night after a gig and tossed it into a vacant lot somewhere in Houston. Whether or not THAT will ever turn up, or if it faded into the sun and kudzu vines, we will probably never know.
The 1950's film clips in the youtube clip is from the movie "Tomboy and the Champ," which list member Andrew Brown hipped me to. It's a 4-H movie and is literally unwatchable, though i did watch it once to get all the Buskirk clips.
Deke |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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