More Small Talk #42: Reso Pickups #3 - Fishman Nashville Pickup in Gretsch Bobtail by Dale Anderson

Small Talk - My Reso and Slide Guitar Pickups, Part 3 - Fishman Nashville Dobro Pickup in Gretsch Bobtail G9220 Sound comparisons featured: Acoustic … Through a Marshall AS50D acoustic amp with some reverb … With LR Baggs Gig Pro Preamp into Marshall amp … (to hear the true sound use headphones) Archie L. Edwards (September 4, 1918 – June 18, 1998) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning several decades worked with Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and John Jackson. His best-known recordings are "Saturday Night Hop", "The Road Is Rough and Rocky", and "I Called My Baby Long Distance". In the late 1950s he owned a barbershop that attracted blues musicians who helped to start his musical career. Edwards was born on a farm near Union Hall, Virginia. His early work left some time to engage with local musicians, but he had to share his first guitar with his two brothers. Inspired by recordings of Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Lemon Jefferson, he played locally and found employment in a sawmill. In 1937, he relocated to New Jersey, where he worked as a chauffeur, He later worked in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio. Edwards served in the military police during World War II. He struggled to settle in the postwar years and eventually found work as a barber. He opened his own barbershop in Washington, D.C., in 1959. It was frequented by Mississippi John Hurt, and the duo formed a loose working relationship with Skip James, which endured for several years before Hurt's death in 1966. After mourning his friend, Edwards wrote the song "The Road Is Rough and Rocky". Edwards found more regular work at music festivals and in local clubs. He also joined John Jackson, John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Flora Molton and Mother Scott, who performed around Washington billed as the Travelling Blues Workshop. In 1982, Edwards joined the American Folk Blues Festival in a tour of Europe. L & R Records subsequently released Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 6: The Road Is Rough (1982). After returning from touring continental Europe, Edwards teamed up with Eleanor Ellis and Flora Molton. The threesome toured across the United States, Canada and Europe, including Charlie Musselwhite in the entourage in 1987. Edwards then recorded for Mapleshade Records, releasing Blues 'n Bones in 1989. Edwards died in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, in June 1998, at the age of 79. Fishman info: Nashville Series Pickups Pickups for mandolins and resonator guitars. The Fishman Nashville™ series pickups are our newest and best, designed to suit modern signal chains, amplifiers and Aura® Imaging systems. By themselves, they offer everything you’ve come to expect from Fishman, clear and accurate tone, but when coupled with any one of our Aura devices, the results are startling. When paired with an impedance-matching preamp, the full potential of our resophonic pickup can be realized Gretsch Bobtail info: With its deluxe appointments and Fishman® Nashville pickup, the Bobtail Round-Neck stands out in the mix in more ways than one. The vital feature of all Gretsch resonator guitars is the Gretsch Ampli-Sonic™ diaphragm (resonator cone), which is hand-spun in Eastern Europe from nearly 99 percent pure aluminium, yielding an impressive quality and volume of tone. YouTube home video:    • More Small Talk #42: Reso Pickups #3 - Fis...   #countryblues #deltablues #deltajets #blues #slideguitar #spiderbridge #resonatorguitar #dobro #daleanderson #opend #gretschbobtail #gigpro #fishmannashville