Davey Crockett Guitar!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:29 am

Check out this 1920's Lyon-Healy(coonskin hat not included). This isn't my ad. I just thought I would post this here because I think it a cool guitar and a real piece of americana.

Actually,I don't think the real Davey Crockett ever played a guitar, maybe he played a fiddle or a dulcimer,But the TV and Movie Davie Crocket(Fess Parker) did and the guitar he played was Lyon-Healy made by Washburn in the 1920's just like the one in this auction.

Lyon & Healy Bell Guitar

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westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:15 pm

This guitar was also a favorite of Carl Sandburg

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:28 pm

carl sandburg sang?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:41 pm

What's a song bag? Why would you need a bag for songs? It's not like their made out of songdust or something.

Cool looking guitar, mind.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:54 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:What's a song bag? Why would you need a bag for songs? It's not like their made out of songdust or something.

Cool looking guitar, mind.

In 1927 Carl Sandburg's Songbag was 1st published it was a a collection of nearly 300 songs he had learned Below is a link to to a NPR story about The Del Fuego's Dan Zane and his resurrection of the Songbag songs (including on song recorded by Sandburg in 1927).

Songbag

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:56 pm

Cool. Shall read later.

It just seems to me that a book would be a much more suitable receptacle for songs than a bag.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:39 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:Cool. Shall read later.

It just seems to me that a book would be a much more suitable receptacle for songs than a bag.

Good point.Perhaps that is why his recordings are not as famous as those made by Woody Guthrie

The Carl Sandburg discography

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:49 pm

woah, i'll check it out when i get home. i've heard him read his poetry and it was awful (i love his poetry, but the delivery was redonkulous)

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:13 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:
It just seems to me that a book would be a much more suitable receptacle for songs than a bag.

At 300 songs it could very well have been a bag of books.