Minstrels

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Historical Indulgences
ca. 1860-1890’s, [carte de visite portrait of a musician hard at work with his beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay guitar]
Vintage Musicians
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Historical Indulgences
one man band, ca. 1880....What in the hell is that demon spawn under his arm??!?! NO! Go AWAY!
MUSICIAN GUITAR PLAYER 1860S CIVIL WAR ERA CDV PHOTOGRAPH
Musician Guitar Player 1860s Civil War Era CDV Photograph
Encyclopedia of Appalachia
Dellie Norton A ballad is a narrative song in which each stanza of text is sung to the same melody. Brought to the American colonies by the earliest British settlers, the ballad form has remained in oral tradition through the present day, particularly in rural parts of the southeastern United States.