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Organic Jug Sep 2017

20 May 2018
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Organic Jug

Regular readers may remember “Messin’ Round”, the band that got me into washboard playing some 12 years ago; which after a few changes became the “Crawfish Blues Band”. Well I’m thrilled to be able to write that we, Dave – Bill and myself, are at it again!

This new trio has been named “Organic Jug”.

The name inspired me to write a little poem of sorts:

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Modified to place the cymbal higher up, which is not something I would do now..

21 January 2018
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Upright cymbal on your washboard?

Recently I was asked how to attach a cymbal upright rather than flat/parallel to the board, like on one of the pictures I have on the Pictures of all my washboards page.

The pictures date from a few years ago and my washboard is no longer set up like that since it ended up being too heavy to be comfortable. But if you want to give it a try it’s not that hard I use a the Gibraltar SC-CSA Cymbal Stacker. This device is made to attach to a 8mm cymbal stand top so a metric 8mm threaded rod sticking out of your washboard is what you will need to attach it.

The Cymbal Stacker is made to hold two cymbals..

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16 November 2017
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November

Sunflowers drop on a coffin of oak
A mound of dirt, a colorful cloak
Are you there somewhere?
Sing to you, talk to myself

Rearranging the flowers, late afternoon sun
Wish it would bring some warmth
Not the words left unsaid
But the discussions no longer

No benches nearby, no place to sit and draw
Swiss bureaucracy at work?

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16 June 2017
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Rag Mama

Some more footage from Floyd Beaumont and the Arcadelphians with yours truly on the washboard.

Part of this was filmed between sets without really considering what I was going to do with it. Always a mistake, but that’s the way it goes…

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7 June 2017
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Sorry For The Selfless

Self-promotion in the last posts. It’s not something I really want on this blog but bills need to be paid and so forth…
The fact is that this blog is back in working order and it’s simply easier to erase all the old posts that had bad links and make some, IMHO, new posts with better presentation. So it needs to be done.

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Dancing Skeleton Guitarist t-shirt

7 June 2017
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Cigar Box Guitar T-Shirts

Swamp Train, one of the bands I play with, uses fretless three string cigar box guitars for all the songs we play. I have built five sofar, since I like to have one around to get ideas from, so you can imagine how much I love them!

Here are some of my unique CBG themed t-shirts that you can find in the Stringed Instruments section of my Rattlebrained Rags store at Zazzle. Hope you enjoy them!

And BTW: you will be able to chose

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