I wonder if anyone has explored 19th century recordings in relation to minstrel perfomance practice and banjo playing from the late minstrel period (the 1890s)? Although some recordings are extremely rare, one can sometimes actually hear a performance from nearly 120 years ago. For example the famous minstrel singer/banjoist Al Reeves (b. 1864) was amongst the earliest to make commercial recordin…
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