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Post by howard lee on Apr 19, 2024 6:51:40 GMT -5
Photograph by David Sidle
"Ben Eldridge, legendary banjo player and co-founder of the equally legendary
Seldom Scene, passed away of natural causes on Sunday evening, Apil 14, 2024, aged 85."
This got right by me the other day.
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Post by Tamarack on Apr 19, 2024 8:06:24 GMT -5
A sad day. Ben Eldridge & company produced lots of great music for many years.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 19, 2024 10:19:17 GMT -5
He was my biggest influence when I was playing banjo. I loved his style.
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Post by millring on Apr 19, 2024 13:15:56 GMT -5
Two great legacies left behind -- his music and Chris.
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Post by howard lee on Apr 19, 2024 13:31:42 GMT -5
Two great legacies left behind -- his music and Chris.
And quite a legacy he left, indeed. Chris is a formidable guitarist and singer.
I like this video, even nine years later, of him playing the Tony Rice tribute
guitar that Dana Bourgeois built to help raise funds for TR's medical bills.
Among other wonderful performances from this young man.
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Post by millring on Apr 19, 2024 13:37:46 GMT -5
I had no idea just how good until I listened to the Norman Blake tribute album -- from sulpher springs to rising fawn -- and in a stellar cast of vocalists, I like Chris's cut the best.
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Post by howard lee on Apr 19, 2024 13:40:34 GMT -5
I had no idea just how good until I listened to the Norman Blake tribute album -- from sulpher springs to rising fawn -- and in a stellar cast of vocalists, I like Chris's cut the best.
As my old mentor Darrell would have said, "Yup, he's been 'touched.'"
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 19, 2024 14:07:39 GMT -5
Is Tom Gray the last surviving original member of the Scene? Billy Wolf, who I think was the sound person at the Birchmere mastered a CD we did back in the 90’s. He asked me about how we wanted it to sound and I told him “Just like the Seldom Scene”  I remember calling him about it and he told me John Duffy had just dropped dead from a heart attack. |
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 19, 2024 19:05:53 GMT -5
We opened for them about a decade ago. Nice guys, every one.
RIP.
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