IN THE DIRT AND THRIVING 10 tracks of folk goodness! AVAILABLE NOW ON BANDCAMP SPOTIFY We are very excited about having this album completed. Tub, Dusty and I have been having a lot of fun playing these songs city to city, and now we are really proud to have these songs in album format. We […]
I started playing spoons because I was hungry. Now it’s the thing I do.
I didn’t put on overalls to show how “mountain folk” dress. I’m from Kansas.
The Spoon Lady explains how she tunes up her musical spoons.
The “slide” is the technique that most folks ask me about when first learning spoon playing. It really is all about the grip. The more I learned about the right way to hold the spoons and got used to them in my hand, the more I could achieve more tricks and movements with them.
There have been spoon players since before written history. Prehistoric rock drawings and pottery as early as the 4th millennium depict dancing figures with curved blades in their hands. Spoons belong to a class of instrument called concussion idiophone.
My desire for storytelling started as I was traveling. I spent the larger part of a decade hitch-hiking and taking freight around the country, which made me have to open up to strangers and folks I normally would not have spoken to. Since I was constantly a stranger, I found myself learning about a wide variety of people along my route.