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Dalthegooner

Dalthegooner

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Bob Dunn

Western Swing Steel Guitar Pioneer

 

 

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Robert Lee Dunn was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, on February 5, 1908, the oldest of four children. He became interested in Hawaiian guitar as a young boy and took correspondence courses on the instrument from Walter Kolomoku. At the age of 19 he joined a professional touring unit called the Panhandle Cowboys and Indians.

He joined Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies in the early 1930's, replacing Wanna Coffman. His steel playing was featured on the recordings by this band until he left the band following the death of Milton Brown in 1936. Bob Dunn's first recordings for Decca with Milton Brown are considered to be the first electric instrument recordings. After Brown's death, Dunn played with many different groups, including Roy Newman, Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers, Bill Mounce and the Sons of the South, and Buddy Jones. He made some recordings on Decca under the name Bob Dunn's Vagabonds (actually Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers).

Bob Dunn's style was virtually unique among the steel guitarists of his time. He was an admirer of the trombonist Jack Teagarden and took a similar approach to his soloing, using a horn-like phrasing far away from the Hawaiian stylings of the day. He always tried to treat the steel guitar as a jazz instrument, or what he termed a "modern instrument".

Bob Dunn ended his professional musical career with the onset of World War II. He enlisted and served during the war. After the war, he earned a degree in music from the Southern College of Fine Arts and opened a music store in Houston. He died in Houston on May 27, 1971.

Here's Bob Dunn's solo from the song "Cheesy Breeze" (134K .au). It gives a small idea of the invention and daring Dunn brought to his guitar playing.

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ROAR

ROAR

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Robert John Dunn (July 14, 1946–April 24, 2003), known as Bob Dunn, died of cancer aged 56 he was a British Conservative Party politician.

Having been involved in the Conservative Party in his hometown of Eccles, Dunn was elected a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark in May 1974.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dartford from 1979 to 1997 and was a junior education minister for a short time. He lost his seat to Howard Stoate at the 1997 general election.

Bob Dunn Way was named in his memory during 2004, this being a northern by-pass of Dartford town for which he had campaigned, previously known as University Way in the expectation of a higher education campus being built. When the former naval college at Greenwich, London became available to the University of Greenwich, its need for a campus north of Dartford disappeared.

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baser999

baser999

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Think that might, just about answer HOL's original questions....

Clearly his specialist subject is 'old dead men in Dartford'.......wonder what his general knowledge is like? [:)]  Must confess that story of Dals about the road being named after a steel guitar player really didn't have much cred unless he visited here once on holiday lol.

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granby

granby

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Someones got to much time on their hands [:(]

 

 

LOOKING AT YOUR POST COUNT I WOULD KEEP QUIET!

Yes, but the way Dals going he'll be past me by the end of the year [:D]

I hope your not insinuating that I've been on here wh*ring [:)][:o][:D]

Who me.............................never [:D]

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