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Listen: The Folk ProgramBlind Johnny Brown playing his resonator guitar and singing blues for a field tape.
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Collection
Series 1577, Box 16, FF63
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Musical instruments
Music--Performance
Performing arts
Blues (Music)
Arts (Performing)
Songs, Blues
Musical traditions, Secular
Musical traditions, African diaspora
Ethnicity, African American
Ethnicity, African diaspora
Plucked instruments
Guitar
Resonator guitar
Instrumentalists
Guitarists
African American guitarists
Musicians with disabilities
Blind musicians
Blues musicians
African American entertainers
African American musicians
Older African American men
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
General Note
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.
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