Offered up with no commentary. Should be work safe for anybody (so long as you can play music at work).
Ghods, I hate that song.
Well, I like the video. Saw it first on Bill Moyers’ Journal, actually. Good interview with filmaker.
While I’m guessing he’s African American, Grandpa Elliot looks like an Australian aborigine due to the beard and the leathery skin. (Or like Moms Mabley’s son with an aborigine.)
Does anybody know what the instrument being played at 3:08 (Roberto Luti, New Orleans) is?
There’s a pair of records released by the (now defunct?) record company Clay Dog called “Street Dreams”. The first singer in that video, Roger Ridley, had a couple songs on the second release and he’s just amazing. I highly recommend tracking them down if you can.
A steel guitar.
Dobro.
Ah. I’ve never seen one held like that. (My father was friends with a man called “Bashful Brother Oswald” who played one for Roy Acuff, but that was 30 years ago.)