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Listen: The Folk ProgramRev. N.L. Williams playing blues guitar while "Blind" Johnny Brown plays a resonator guitar
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Series 1577, North Florida Folklife Project ; no 2
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Folklife and folklore projects
Ethnicity, African diaspora
Ethnicity, African American
Arts (Performing)--Utah--Salt Lake City
Guitarists
Instrumentalists
Stringed instruments
Musical instruments
African American guitarists
Musical traditions, Secular
Musical traditions, African diaspora
Blues (Music)
Resonator guitar
Guitar
Music--Performance
African American musicians--Utah--Salt Lake City
Older African American men--Utah--Salt Lake City
Material culture--Utah--Salt Lake City
Blues musicians
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The resonator guitar, which is a type of dobro, that Johnny Brown is playing was likely modified to look the way it does. One possibilty is that Brown used a radio cone speaker and inserted it into the dobro, thus allowing it to resonate and change the sound. Or it may simply be an off-brand wood bodied Dobro/Resonator guitar, which are fairly common.
Performed for the American Folklore Society meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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