Introducing "Bluesmen" series from VS

[scooter]

OK, I'm confused. I love these hats, although a couple of them are much too....uhhhh..."colorful", for me, but on the first page David refers to the "Honey Boy", but I don't see any hat by that name. What am I missing?

 

[Art Fawcett]

It's on page 4 of this thread and page one of the "calling all LA members" thread Scooter

 

[scooter]

I got it, Art. I kept going back up to the top of page 1 and scrolling thru slowly, trying to figure out how I was overlooking it. Having said that, it is simply a beautiful hat! I applaud your skills.

 

[J.B.]

Amazing.

My choices (so far) are:

...Blind Lemon :first:

...Pinetop :second:

 

[hatophile]

Very cool. How about a John Lee Hooker Homburg?

 

[danofarlington]

When I saw John Lee Hooker in concert at the Bus Depot in Minneapolis in 1973 or so, he wore a stocking cap with a tassel on top. But if we are to imagine a John Lee Hooker hat, it would have to be different. I don't think JLH was a homburg type of guy...although I don't know what he would've, or did wear fedora-wise. What I liked best about JLH's songs were not the "bam bam bam bam" ones, but his slower, eerie songs that played with my imagination as a teenager, like Tupelo and others like it whose names I can't recall. He was like a painter with a strange landscape that he knew all about. There was also more melancholy and outright sadness, seems to me, in his work than with other bluesmen. My other impression meeting him, shaking his hand (he wasn't mobbed by patrons) was that he had a large and squishy hand, which I infer was good for handling a guitar really well.

 

[hatophile]

Oh JLH is a Hommie and fedora guy.

 

[danofarlington]

Nothing like a little actual knowledge to clear it up!

 

[J.B.]

...What I liked best about JLH's songs were not the "bam bam bam bam" ones, but his slower, eerie songs that played with my imagination as a teenager, like Tupelo and others like it whose names I can't recall...

Good observation! So it was with me, as well... His VeeJay album Travelin' was a classic. No Shoes and Canal Street are perfect examples of the songs that you describe.

Hey, speaking of Canal Street...
Hey, speaking of New Orleans... (Shut up. I'm getting there...) :crutch:

Hey Art, if you ever create a bluesman fedora in "peluche" -- you could name it the Professor LONGHAIR ?!

 

[Art Fawcett]

LOL.. I'd consider it JB, as long as I don't have to make "shorty"

 

[J.B.]

...as long as I don't have to make "shorty"

 

[Art Fawcett]

OK Gentlemen, here are the last of them for now.

We're talking
Barrelhouse

crown= 5 1/2
brim= 2 3/8 bound 9 ligne
Mojave pure beaver
crown ribbon 19 ligne ? ( I'll have to recheck)

and finally
PO BOB

Pecan ppure beaver
6" crown open
24 ligne ribbon
6 ligne binding on 2 1/8" brim

 

[Link]

I love the ribbon on the Gatemouth. The Pinetop and Barrelhouse also really caught my attention.

 

[seabass]

Heck ! there all awesome !
check out the Fraying on Po-Bob.....How tall is the crown ? & what color is that
Tough Choices................................

 

[Art Fawcett]

Sorry Che, I forgot to do that. It's done now

 

[bowlerman]

Oooh yeah. These are great! I love that Po' Bob, but I think you led with your best foot forward with Gatemouth.

 

[seabass]

Cool & Tall !!!!
Say which is Taller Creased ? Blind Lemon or Po-Bob ?
awwww are these dress weight or Lite ?
Did you get more Lites.....

 

[Art Fawcett]

Cool & Tall !!!!
Say which is Taller Creased ? Blind Lemon or Po-Bob ?
awwww are these dress weight or Lite ?
Did you get more Lites.....

These are all dress weights Che, yes, I got black and dark brown in featherweights and I have black cherry being dyed right now

 

[J.B.]

...My choices (so far) are:

...Blind Lemon :first:

...Pinetop :second:

J.B.'s Final Selections:

PO BOB :first: <----- dead heat -----> Blind Lemon :first:

(they hit the wire together!)

 

[W4ASZ]

They are all profound.

I may need to go down to Rosedale (Ave., a block away) and think about this business.