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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Re;strap,handrest,etal. (sho-bro sidebar..) | | Date: | Thursday, August 24, 2006 17:26:02 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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I remember listening to Lee Moore as a kid. I used to stay up very lateeee at
night to try and catch him, and about the only Country to be found in the Boston
area....(this is before the Hillbilly Ranch and Nelson Bragg "The Merry Mayor of
Milo Maine", got a show on WCOP,) was WWVA. In the very late '40's & early '50's it was either WWVA in Wheeling West Virginia or WCKY I think were the call letters and you could buy "100 baby
chicks for like $2.98" and things of that nature.
I got to see Lee Moore a couple of times once at the Lone Star Ranch in Reed's
Ferry, N.H., and another time at the Deerfield Fair also in N.H. One time he had
a metal body chrome plated Dobro, and he played both Spanish guitar, and also
"our" (well most of us) style of Hawaiian playing with the raised strings,
and metal bar.
Thanks for the memories Wally, and now we return you to your regularly
schedueled programmimg.
Twangs.....(from the old folks home),
Richie
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Wally Hughes <one_horseman@yahoo.com>
> Cool. Good idea on the removeable thingy.
>
> Speaking of Sho-bro's again....(this is the sidebar,
> part...).
>
> I was going through my old Music scrapbook the other
> day, and saw some stuff I'd gotten from "Lee Moore,
> The Coffee Drinkin NightHawk" in
> the 70s. He played some shows with our family band,
> and befriended my sister and I. He even sent us some
> simulated gold plated national pics in the mail.
> Really nice man. I don't know, maybe he gave alot
> of people these picks??? Anyone else?? But, at
> the time, it made me feel special..ha.
> I think he passed away in the late 90s.
> Not sure if anyone remembers him, but he
> was a radio disc jockey on Wheeling West Virginia's
> WWVA program long ago. He dressed in cowboy singer
> style (hat, fancy suit) and sang older country tunes
> and played guitar. Anyway, there was a little dobro
> flyer called "the dobro nut" in my scrapbook with him
> on the cover and 2 round neck sho-bro guitars of his.
> He had them both setup as guitars, not resos.
> But, I think he did play reso stuff some, too.
>
> I think Beverly King put out the "dobro nut" booklet.
> That's the only one I have though. It was
> a pretty neat little paper/magazine.
>
> Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
>
> Wally
poobah@resoguit.com
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