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Jim & Jesse - Mandolin Workshop

Jim & Jesse were an American bluegrass music duo composed of brothers Jim McReynolds (born February 13, 1927; died December 31, 2002) and Jesse McReynolds (born July 9, 1929). The two were born and raised in Carfax, a community near Coeburn, Virginia.

Jesse played the mandolin with a unique, self-invented "crosspicking"and "split-string" playing method, and Jim sang as a tenor and played guitar. They played with their backing band, The Virginia Boys, consisting of five-string banjo, fiddle and bass. The Virginia Boys have included a who's who of famous musicians such as famed fiddler Vassar Clements, banjo great Allen Shelton, fiddle great Jimmy Buchanan, Carl Jackson, Glen Duncan, Jesse's oldest son, the late Keith McReynolds, Randall Franks and many more.

Since the death of brother Jim, Jesse has gone on with their famous Virginia Boys band. He has continued in the bluegrass music tradition and has added other genres of music to his repertoire. His present show includes Chuck Berry songs, and he is now working on a tribute to Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter (of the Grateful Dead) to be out in 2009.

Jesse's present band lineup includes Keith's son, Garrett McReynolds as tenor singer/rhythm guitarist. Garrett's older sister Amanda sings third part harmony. Sometimes Jesse grabs the historic fiddle his grandfather played on the Bristol Sessions, and lets grandson Luke McKnight do the crosspicking that Jesse invented & made famous. This musical family continued on, entertaining their fans all over the world.

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Poly and his guitar

Angelo Apollonius or Poly (Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 8, 1920 - Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 10, 1985) was a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, bass, guitar, Hawaiian guitar) & Brazilian composer, and since 10 years demonstrated skill with stringed instruments.
As part of the pre-pre-Beatles and Hendrix, it is important to note some peculiarities in its footprint, like, not necessarily a distance of rock'n'roll, but a lack of evidence that rock brought later to the guitar that made the current paradigm of the electric guitar.
Its clean sound, ie without the effects of distortion - popularized from the late 60's until the present day - with a similar timbre of jazz guitarists like Wes Montgomery, but without the harmonic sophistication of the guitarists in this style .
This is due to the fact that use Poly-acoustic guitars, usually using the neck pickup alone or mixed with the bridge.
But his biggest gap was the unusual use for the time of the technique known as lap steel slide. Finding it impossible to use the neck pickup to play notes on guitar hyperacute beyond the boundary of the mirror guitar (C # 5, D5 and E5, being respectively the frets 21, 22 and 24), he used the pickup in the bridge Hawaiian guitars to make an effect like the neighing of horses, rubbing the slide near the end of the strings in the region where the mirror of the guitar.
Such use of lap steel, has been popularized worldwide by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd many years later, but apparently without direct influence of Poly.

Besides the lap steel (guitar lying on the lap slide with the left hand), we can palm mute, double stops. The factory of musical instruments Giannini made his signature guitar, or instrument tribute in his honor, Giannini named Apollo, is a very famous model and currently of great value for collectors of vintage instruments.
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The brazilian virtuose Fafá Lemos

Violinist, was a child prodigy, performing a concerto for violin and orchestra by Vivaldi to nine years in the Municipal Theatre. After some performances, he abandoned the violin to complete their studies. He began playing in 1940, when he joined the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Carlos Machado, who played at the Cassino da Urca. Radio Nacional in 1950, some years later was with guitarist Laurindo Almeida to the United States, where he made recordings for film and accompanied Carmen Miranda. There also recorded an album with Brazilian music, including "Aquarela do Brazil", "In Lower the Shoemaker" (both of Ary Barroso) and "Paraíba" (Humberto Teixeira / Luiz Gonzaga). In 1952 he graduated with Boy (guitar), and Chiquinho of Accordion Trio mute, where, besides playing the violin, also sang. They released their first album in 1953 with the original recording of "Two accounts" with music and lyrics by Boy. In the same year they recorded "Trio Plays mute Ary Barroso." He returned to America to follow Carmen Miranda and, after the singer's death, remained some time there. Back in Brazil in 1956, was artistic director Victor, appeared in television and played in clubs until 1961, when he returned to America, getting four more years.

DISCOGRAPHY

•	Cigano no baião/Saudades do Texas (1951) RCA Victor 78
•	Grã-fino/Tico-tico no fubá (1951) RCA Victor 78
•	Mentira de amor/Violino triste (1952) RCA Victor 78
•	Dois malandros/Barrigudinho (1952) RCA Victor 78
•	Meu guarda-chuva/Uma noite na Lapa (1952) RCA Victor 78
•	ABC do amor/Ternamente (1953) RCA Victor 78
•	Valsa do vira-lata/Se alguém disser (1954) RCA Victor 78
•	Meu panamá/Zigeuner (1954) RCA Victor 78
•	Tempo antigo/Luar de Areal (1954) RCA Victor 78
•	Canarinho feliz/Joãozinho boa-pinta (1954) RCA Victor 78
•	Rosita/Arrivederci Roma (1956) RCA Victor 78
•	Time perna-de-pau/Dengoso (1956) RCA Victor 78
•	Delicado/Feitiço da Vila (1956) RCA Victor 78
•	Fantasma do Caju/Fala, meu louro (1957) RCA Victor 78
•	Bicharada/Aviso prévio (1958) RCA Victor 78
•	Le gondolier/Nel blu, di pinto di blu (1958) Odeon 78
•	Fafá, seu violino e seu ritmo [S/D] RCA Victor LP
•	Trio do Fafá [S/D] RCA Victor LP
•	Violino travesso [S/D] Odeon LP
•	Jantar no Rio [S/D] RCA Victor LP
•	Para ouvir dançando [S/D] RCA Victor LP
•	Hi-Fi do Fafá [S/D] Odeon LP
•	Fafá & Carolina (1989) Eldorado LP

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Ali Ollie Woodson, Singer in Temptations, Dies at 58

Ali Ollie Woodson, who led the Motown quintet the Temptations in the 1980s and ’90s and helped restore it to hit-making glory with songs like “Treat Her Like a Lady,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 58.

The cause was cancer, said Billy Wilson, president of the Motown Alumni Association. He said Mr. Woodson’s wife, Juanita, told him about the death.

Mr. Woodson was not an original member of the group, which had several lineup changes since it started in the 1960s. But he played an integral part in keeping the Temptations from becoming just a nostalgia act.

By the early 1980s, the Temptations were no longer posting hit after hit as they had in the 1960s and ’70s with songs like “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” “My Girl,” and “I Wish It Would Rain.”

The group had lost original members, and Mr. Woodson was brought in to replace Dennis Edwards, whose voice had defined the group in the 1970s.

Mr. Woodson helped the Temptations notch the R&B hits “Treat Her Like a Lady,” which he wrote; “Sail Away”; and “Lady Soul.”

In a review of a concert featuring the Temptations and the Four Tops in 1985, Stephen Holden described Mr. Woodson in The New York Times as “a charismatic young pop-funk singer with a husky, agile voice that breaks into unexpected falsetto riffs.”

He added that he put his playful stamp on several Temptations’ standards as well as more recent material “with his tricky punctuation, sassy humor and inventive acrobatics.”

Ollie Creggett was born Oct. 12, 1951 in Detroit.

He sang with the Temptations from 1984 to 1986, and then again from 1988 until 1996, when he began performing as a solo artist.