Rhythm Bones
How to Play Bones w/ Dom Flemons
4 September 2010
How to Play Bones w/ Dom Flemons from Thomas P. Ciaburri.
A fun little rhythm bone tutorial by the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Dom Flemons!
David Holt Interview: Percy Danforth playing the bones
22 August 2010
“David Holt interviews Percy Danforth in 1988”
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Rick Franklin & Mike Baytop / Eastern Market #1 . 22 July 07
27 May 2010
A great document from ElvertBarnes's Channel featuring Rick Franklin on resonator guitar & Mike Baytop on rhythm bones.
Finding this video this morning was a special moment for me…
Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (With Bones!)
22 May 2010
There I am trying to find information on the web for Washboard Doc, see my Doc, Flash, Lucky & Red - Pretty Woman post, and re-reading the *Early Morning Blues* record credits the following stands out: "His first recording was with bluesman Ralph Willis about 1950. About two years later he cut with Sonny Terry for a Folkways LP, playing washboards and spoons". So I whip out my Sonny Terry's Washboard Band CD and once again go through the pdf file wondering if I missed anything…
Mississippi Rag
27 April 2010
And now for some real old time banjo & bone playing
Sun-Bleached Ox Rib Bones!
10 April 2010
When Bone Dry Music received a whole new batch of whole sun-bleached ox rib bones a couple of weeks ago I decided to completely ignored the fact that monetary resources are low and order a few, after all a choice of good rhythm bones will get you through hard times a lot better than uh, well, many other things I’m sure…
Genuine Negro Jig, The Carolina Chocolate Drops
14 March 2010
It’s been way too long since I posted a Carolina Chocolate Drops video…
Bones Instructional Video: Sample excerpt
5 March 2010
I was trying to make sense of the Wood Rhythm Bones Home Made page, have somewhat edited it as well as finally figured out how to allow comments there too.
Then to make this post a bit more entertaining I checked to see if any new Rhythm Bone videos had been added over at YouTube and sure enough, along with some new videos presenting rhythm bones made with different materials and how they sound by “bonedrymusic” (check these out if you haven’t yet, and even so: it’s a growing collection), was this excerpt from a Bones Instructional Video by “bonesmanplunkett” which I’m happy to have bought last fall and recommend wholeheartedly.
Considering the statistics of it all…
Chlefele
24 January 2010
One of the main problems with blogging is that when you have lots of stuff to blog about it often means that you have a lot to do which means you don’t have much time to blog… And so it has been the last few days, so hopefully (do I really want that?) life will calm down enough to catch up (no).
A few weeks ago I finally joined the Rhythm Bones Society, something I had been wanting to do for a while, and with their greetings I received one of their newsletters of a few years back in which there was an article about Klepperle / Chefele “rhythm bones” from south eastern Germany and north eastern Switzerland. I found that kind of funny, all the more since I had never heard of them nor had anyone who saw me play around here said: hey, that’s like an instrument they play in certain parts of German speaking Switzerland”… OK, so it’s a fact that the linguistic parts of Switzerland are culturally further apart than mere distance measured, but still…
Coon Hunt Walk Around/Charleston Gals
12 January 2010
So far, the few rhythm bone videos I’ve posted were all bone “solos” so I wanted to finish this last week’s small incursion into to the world of bone rhythms with an example of bones played with another instrument: in this case a reproduction Civil War era banjo is played by Carl Anderton accompanied by Scott Miller on the bones…
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