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Matteson,Richard-Banjo Pickin' Girl
Banjo Pickin' Girl

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Description: BANJO PICKING GIRL Oh, I'm going `round the world, baby mine, I'm going `round the world, baby mine. I'm going `round this world, I'll be a banjo picking girl, I'm going `round this world, baby mine. Oh, I'm going to Tennessee, baby mine, I'm going to Tennessee, baby mine. I'm going to Tennessee, don't you try to foller me, I'm going to Tennessee, baby mine. Oh, I'm going `cross the ocean, baby mine, I'm going `cross the ocean, baby mine. I'm going `cross the ocean if I don't change my notion, I'm going `cross the ocean, baby mine. Oh, if you ain't got no money, baby mine, If you ain't got no money, baby mine. If you ain't got no money, get yourself another honey, I'm going `round this world baby mine. Banjo Pickin' Girl: Original is 30" by 40" Acrylic on canvas. C 2008. Banjo Pickin' Girl is based a song from the Kentucky all girl band popular in the 1930's: The Coon Creek Girls- Lily May Ledford, vocal and banjo; Rosie Ledford, guitar; Violet Koehler, bass and vocal. The song was recorded May 30, 1938, in Chicago. Originally issued on Vocalion 04413 and Okeh 04413. The song originated from the "Baby Mine" songs-words Charles Mackay and music Achibald Johnson in 1874. The painting of the Banjo Pickin' Girl is based on an actual photo of Lily May Ledford. In a persimmons tree a possum watched a raccoon pump the water into the ocean. The shape of the state of Tennessee is found as a blue lake.











 
 

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Name   : Richard Matteson
Location: louisville KY 
  United States


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Richard Matteson
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Richard L. Matteson Jr. 211 S. Spring St. Louisville, KY 40206 Phone: 502-290-5090 or Cell 336-414-3440 Online Blog : http://richardmattesonsblog.blogspot.com/ Bluegrass Messengers Website: http://bluegrassmessengers.com/ Richard L. Matteson Jr. is a nationally recognized guitarist, artist and author. He has written and illustrated ten nationally and internationally acclaimed books by Mel Bay Publications in Pacific, Missouri. Currently Richard teaches guitar and other music lessons at Mom's Music and leads the music for the contemporary service at Highland United Methodist Church. Artistic Direction: His new series of ten paintings based on traditional American songs begun in 2006, portents a new direction in his art career. Called The Bluegrass Series, the lyrics of the song are engraved on the canvas in small print and the painting depicts the story of the song. Matteson's goal is to paint a large number of music song paintings in the next several years. Another new group of paintings entitled, The Driftwood Series, was begun early in 2007. The forms suggested by driftwood have come to life. Sometimes Matteson uses close-ups of the tree grain to create new worlds of form and life. He has completed over a dozen driftwood paintings in 2007 and 2008. Matteson has started professionally reproducing his paintings so they can be purchased at a reasonable price by art patrons. The ten paintings in his Bluegrass Series have been reproduced on a high quality photopaper with foam core backing. Richard plans to launch his art web-site soon. Style: Matteson's calls his realistic painting style neosurrealism (new surrealism). Following the trail blazed by Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, Matteson has produced many thought producing paintings from large serious works (Heaven, Bipolar and Hell) to lighter music based song paintings (Froggie Went A-Courtin'). Background: Matteson was born into an artist and musical family; his great uncle being the late Richard Lofton, an accomplished painter from Carmel, Ca. After studying art in college, Matteson taught art in Beaufort, SC as well as music. He supported himself through art and music until his music career became his main source of income. Matteson has shown his work in Beaufort, SC at a National Gallery Gallery in Easton MD and Winston-Salem, NC. Beside some commissions and illustrations, Matteson is painting in relative obscurity. Matteson currently resides in Louisville, KY. View Some Paintings On-line: http://richardmattesonsblog.blogspot.com/
 
Statement
Working on my Bluegrass Series: paintings of songs
 
Exhibitions
Kentucky Music Hall of Fame
 

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