Week of Oct. 9

Well this week in review was pretty easy. On Tuesday we went to the Library and learned how to use the search engines like google, and the library search also. That took up the whole hour. Now Thursday was a great day. We had a guest speaker, well technically player. He played the Banjo. He was a transfer student three years ago, and his first year he lived in Indy Hall. He started playing the guitar for about 3 years then in Idaho at the Homestead Pickin' Parlor he was taught how to play the banjo. He thought it was much more fun to play the banjo. It's a loud and fast type of music and it's the "Rock and Roll of Country". The high strings on the banjo really screws up guitar players, and when you roll your fingers randomly. The Hammer Claw is when you drag your fingernails on the string instead of picking the strings. It's easy to learn and it's easy to get. The only thing hard about it is tuning. He also played some songs for us that were great! I wish I could just pick up an instrument and play, like he did. He was awsome!
We then had performances. Tyler played a Skip James song, it was played in O Brother Where Art Thou. He did a very good job on that. He also gave a background of Skip. He was a bootleg wiskey seller, and he played for Paramount. He disappeared for aobut 30 years in 1931, and later found in 1960. He then started recording again and performing up until he died in 1969.
Lindsey did a paper on Muddy Waters. Chuck Berry was started by Muddy, and when he was started then Rock got popular, so Muddy's kind of music "the blues" died out. He started the Britain Revolution with guitars, and he opened for Eric Clapton and played with the Rolling Stones. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, even though he was a Blues musician. He won many emmys too. For a more modern type, these artists were associated with Muddy. Led Zeplin, and the Rolling Stones were named after Rolling Stone by Muddy Waters. There are over 200 artists that covered some of Muddy's songs. That is amazing! Some are AC~DC, Bob Dillon, Elvis Presley, and David Bowey. Muddy lived untill the late 70's to early 80's.

***Just a reminder also to everyone. Jamboree Planning is Next THURSDAY! Come with your ideas on what we are going to do!!!