Tony

PLEASE GO TO MY MUSIC PAGE WHERE I HAVE 4 MP3S!!!! www.myspace.com/tonythomasbanjobluesandfolk __________________________________________________________Th e only banjo is a year and half old from a live performance_________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Three guitar tunes from a gig audition cd I make 3 years ago ..I will be doing some new recording on banjo tunes soon and may just set up a banjo only for this stuff since I am much more of a banjoist now.I don't add memorial sites for dead folk. I had a rather unfortunate experience with a musician I had known 40 years ago and did not know he had passed away, writing him about mutual friends, to learn this was just some fan impersonating him. As for favorites, despite the wonderful stuff many folks here do, I have only added people I actually have met and spoken with and can contact if I wanted to, not folks I am fans of.Born 1947. Supporter and former leader of the Socialist Workers Party. See The Militant's web site at http://www.themilitant.com/index.shtml for solutions to the world's crises for working people, farmers, youth, and oppressed people.For a lot of answers and excellent books on how we can save the world go to www.Pathfinderpress.com. Active in the Pathfinder Print Project. Please go to Pathfinderpress.com to see the great variety of books written by leaders of working class, farmer, and youth struggless around the world.Banjoist and guitarist and awful wannabe fiddler. Great singer. Folk, blues, and old time music performer.I am at work compiling, mastering, and preparing files for a myspace music file and a CD of my music. This CD will not commercial but to show what I do to friends and venues. Published literary short stories and poetry. All the stories are available at The short Stories of Tony Thomas at http://members.aol.com/shortfict/storyheader.htm. Several poems are available at Poems of Tony Thomas at http://members.aol.com/shortfict/tonyspoetry.html.I wrote many many articles about world politics, Africa, Black liberation struggle, politics in Canada and Quebec, France, the Arab East, and elsewhere in the Militant, Intercontinental Press, and the International Socialist Review as well as journals of Black political and scholarly opinion like the Black Scholar.In 2004 I started Black Banjo Then and Now Yahoo group. Black Banjo Then and Now is at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/.In 2005 I organized Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State U in North Carolina. For information and photographs of the Black Banjo gathering go to http://blackbanjo.com/.You should also check out the web sites for two of the great Black string bands that came out of the Black Banjo Gathering that have overlapping personnel: Sankofa Strings Web site http://www.sankofastrings.com/andThe Carolina Chocolate Drops Web site http://www.sankofastrings.com/ccd/index.html.And don't forget the first Black string band in the current revival the Ebony Hillbillies Web site & Blog http://eh.singersauce.com/blog/_archives/2005/4/6/556786.htm lIn 2006 struggling to organize the Association of Black Traditional String Players. African Americans who support the traditions of string band, banjo, fiddle, percussion, and guitar playing in Black old time music who are interested should write me at [email protected] for more information.I am an Amazon top 500 reviewer. You can see all my reviews (and click on every single one of them that it helped, LOL) athttp://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3N0E03AQD128O /ref=cm_pdp_reviews_see_all/002-6350327-5648018I also have them organized in 15 linked lists which are at http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3N0E03A QD128O/ref=cm_pdp_lm_seeAll/002-6350327-5648018You can use this as a guide to several subjects where you can go to each item, read my comment, and then click that it helped.I live in North Miami Florida, South Florida guy since 1982, formerly lived in Oakland, New York City, and Hartford Connecticut and brief stops in Seattle, Atlanta, and Renton, Washington.I am a loyal member of Local 291 Transport Workers Union, at Miami Dade Transit and an Adjunct professor of English, Miami Dade College.Devoted and fanatical fan of the New York Giants for 50 years!Lover of inexpensive wines, cheap champagne, and high class scotch.Deep interests Black old time music, History, Marxism, literature.