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Subject: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: Scoville Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:47 AM Etta Baker has passed away. I never got to see her live but she was one of my favorite guitarists. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:05 AM There was a very nice rememberance on Morning Edition this morning. link here |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: katlaughing Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:13 AM Thanks for the thread, Scoville, and for the link, SRS. Sad to hear but 93 is a good old age! |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: Scoville Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:31 AM I know. I thought she must already have passed but I never saw any references to it so I wasn't sure. Boy, is my mother going to be upset, though! She's been a fan ever since that Folk Music of the Southern Appalachians record came out in 1956. Etta was one of the reasons Mom bought a guitar in the first place. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: Alice Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:35 AM I found the Folk Music of the Southern Appalachians record and Etta Baker when I was in college. She amazed me and brought tears to my eyes to hear her music. I just heard on NPR of her passing on. Great talent. Alice |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: catspaw49 Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:14 AM CLANK ON HERE and then listen to complete tracks....Try the original 56 recording of Rairoad Bill first.....It's the real thing. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: Bill D Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:22 AM I, too heard her on that old LP when I was in college! Here is the tune most everyone heard. One Dime Blues Thanks for the music, Mrs. Baker |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: open mike Date: 25 Sep 06 - 12:55 PM that folk music of southern appalachian is out in c.d. i am looking for it now...perhaps smithsonian? i think it may be called instrumental music of southern appalachian |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: Scoville Date: 25 Sep 06 - 01:36 PM It is on CD, in at least two forms. You can get it on Amazon, and I think I got mine at Cheap CD's.com. It's probably available through anyone who sells folk or blues. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: The Sandman Date: 25 Sep 06 - 02:28 PM GREAT. I remember along with paley and john hurt she was a featured artist in finger picking styles for guitar, back in the 1960,s.I reckon the later version of Railroad bill, at the slower tempo is even better, and i loved Dew Drop,THANKS,Dick .Miles |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: Rapparee Date: 25 Sep 06 - 02:45 PM Her recent CD with Taj Mahal is fan--f'ing--tastick! A shame, but I guess the angels needed a good guitarist. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:34 PM She was a great talent. All of us who had that old LP were influenced by her picking. So sorry to hear this news. Art |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Etta Baker, guitarist, age 93 From: GUEST,Deacon Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:26 AM Etta was a great guitarist, but more importantly she was a great friend. We had a number of opportunities to work together and she always treated me (and just about everyone else she knew) as family. This was inevitable, given her failing health in recent years, but it is still a tremendous loss. We can only be grateful for the time we had to spend with her and the legacy she leaves behind. |
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