FOTOFAX APRIL-MAY, 1982
Editorial:
HAVE YOU MET?
Pretty Good Guitar Picker
If you were in Knoxville when
the 1982 World’s Fair opened,
May 1, you had a chance to see a
familiar face on stage. If you
didn’t make it for the opening,
there will be another chance to
watch Danny Johnson when he
plays a return engagement in
August.
Here, Danny is a General Me
chanic. There, he’s an artist, pre
serving an art form unfamiliar to
many of the spectators.
Danny Johnson plays Blue-
grass guitar.
Before Country Music made
“Music City” out of Nashville,
they called it Mountain Music;
before that, some called it “hill
billy”. But some of the roots of
Bluegrass go back before Beet
hoven, and Bluegrass musicians
make music the old way, without
tape tracks or computerized ban
jos. What you hear is what the
people on stage can do.
And Danny does it well.
At the World’s Fair, participat
ing countries will be showing
their art and their accomplish
ments, the best they have. The
World’s Fair Committee wants to
show the world special things
about our country, and the South,
and the Southern highlands. They
went looking for the best.
When Mack Snodderly (from
Clyde, N.C.) fiddled, and Danny
played guitar, they won an invita
tion. That seems like a good story
to me.
But when I talked to Danny
about the Fair, he gave me
something even better.
I asked about his musical
talent, and he told about getting
a scrapped counter from the
plant, putting it near his chair at
home.
“I was working on this one part
I was having trouble with,” he
said, “and I got curious about
how many times I tried it. I put a
little handle on the counter and
pushed it every time I played that
song.”
“I quit counting at 500 and
some,” he laughs. “And I still
don’t get it to suit me, some
times! But it’s passable.”
A while later, I asked: “Where
do you go from here?”
After a moment’s thought, he
replied;
“You don’t go anywhere from
here. Here is where you’ve been
trying to be.”
The first answer contains the
secret of success; the second is
the secret of contentment.
Although Danny’s success as
a musician came with hard work,
I’m not sure I could play as well
by working as hard. But I think
each person has a talent for
something, and could be great by
exercising to develop the
strengths they were given.
And I believe we could all do
with practice- at being happier
where we are, with what we’ve
worked to be.
—Hale
Capacities clamor to be used and cease their clamor only when they
are well used.
—Abraham H. Maslow
FOTOFAX
published by
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA 28712
Bob Hale, Editor
CMP
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