| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] A couple of Joshes and a Hall | | Date: | Wednesday, December 6, 2006 10:15:18 (-0500) | | From: | Pat Walker <cecilpwv @.....com>
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I have run into Josh Matheny a few times.
The first was at the Summersville WV festival (in 2000 I think). I had just
arrived and was looking for a jam. Across the lot under the shelter were
about a dozen folks jamming, and the only instrument I could distinguish
above the din on that damp night was a dobro. Clear as a bell and LOUD.
Turns out it was Josh and he was playing a Scheerhorn maple L-body. That was
the first time I had heard a Scheerhorn and I decided right then and there
that I would have one some day, which I do. I joined in the jam (hey, could
a 13th player really hurt that much?), and before too long the jam dwindled
down to about 4-5 players - Josh, me, and a killer fiddle player who was
there (I learned later) with Melvin Goins. Even though I was surely a drag
on Josh and the fiddle player, they were as nice as could be and Josh and I
talked about all things dobro. I had been playing for a couple of years at
that point and this was the first time I had met a good dobro player I could
have a lengthy conversation with. Josh recommended another luthier that I
may be interested in if I did not want to wait the 2-3 years for a 'horn. 3
months later I had a cherry guitar made by Harry James. The fiddle player?
He left Melvin a couple months later to join up with Doyle Lawson - Hunter
Berry, who now plays with Rhonda Vincent.
At IBMA a couple of years later I was banging away on my Scheerhorn in a
hallway jam when Josh passed by. I asked him give my instrument a once over,
as i was concerned that my guitar was maybe the lemon in the batch. He
confirmed for me that tone is mostly in the player's control, not due to the
instrument.
Then a year ago at the August Gettysburg festival, I was pleasantly
surprised to see him onstage with the Whites. That's a lot of work for the
dobro, as I recall that is an instrumental trio (although Ricky Skaggs
joined them on fiddle that night). He did a fantastic job though, and I was
able to catch up with him a bit after the show. A really nice guy- I thought
he said was in that East Tenn U bluegrass program studying music marketing.
He used to post here occasionally - he's probably lurking right now.
Pat Walker
On 12/6/06, kbrown@mail.utexas.edu <kbrown@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
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> . . .
>
> Josh Matheny, originally from Lawrence, Kansas, has played with Ashley Ray
> and
> apparently now plays dobro and lap steel with a sort of alt-country band
> called
> Kingbilly. I've tried to look at their MySpace page, but my computer can't
> decipher it. Last I had heard about Josh, I think he was studying music at
> Belmont in Nashville. I saw him play with Alecia Nugent at an IBMA
> showcase a
> couple of years back, but haven't heard anything about him since. Can
> anybody
> fill us in with more details?
>
> . . .
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