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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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This guitar was also a favorite of Carl Sandburg

carl sandburg sang?

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.

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

Cool. Shall read later.

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

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

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)

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.